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Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Biljanovac

White marble tauroctony relief from the Mithraeum at Biljanovac, Moesia Superior, depicting the standard bull-slaying with torchbearers and Sol and Luna busts in the upper corners.
 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
White marble relief (H. 0.32 Br. 0.34 D. 0.34) found near F.Vulić in RA (S. 6) I, 1933, 184f No. IV and figs. 3–4; Kokić in BSSS 1933, 7f and figs. 8–9; Bulic in Spomenik LXXVII, 60, 1934, 65 No. 4 and figs.; LeRoy Campbell in Berytus XI, 1954, 46 No. 81. See fig. 609.Mithras as a bullkiller in an arched grotto. The god looks back at the raven; the dog, the serpent and the scorpion. On either side of this scene a Phrygian cap with rays is engraved in the borders of the relief. Outside the grotto are Sol (l) and Luna (r) in the upper corners.The reverse of the relief has a decoration…

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