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Tauroctony relief from Corniculum

Marble relief showing Mithras slaying the bull inside a vaulted cave accompanied by Sol, Luna and the torchbearers.
 
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28 May 2026

TNMM 2124 ↔ CIMRM 321bis

White marble relief (H. 0.37 Br. 0.33 D. 0.06) found in a house at Montecelio N-W of Tivoli on the Via Tiburtina.

Piccolini in Att. Mem. Tib., XXVI, 1953, 209ff and Pl. XIV. See fig. 249.

Mithras kills the bull in a vaulted cave. The animal's tail ends in corn-ears; the dog, the snake and the scorpion. Mithras looks towards the bull. Cautopates (r) with both hands holds the torch downwards; Cautes (l) holds the torch upwards. Both are cross-legged and in Oriental dress. In the l. upper corner the bust of Sol; in the r. upper corner the bust of Luna with a crescent upon the forehead.

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