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Tauroctony fragments from Alteburg-Heftrich

Tuff fragments including a knee, thigh and possible lunar head from a bull-slaying scene.
 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026

TNMM 2153 ↔ CIMRM 1039

A piece of a knee with a part of a thigh in tuff (H. 0.185 D. 0.14) may have belonged to Mithras as a bullkiller (Jacobi, 12 No. 9). To this representation possibly belongs also a fragment of a head in tuff (Br. 0.18) on which wavy hair is visible. Jacobi supposes a woman's head. In this case it may be Luna (Jacobi, 12 No. 7).

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