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Monumentum

Bull fragment from Butzbach

Basalt fragment preserving the skin and hoof of a bull probably belonging to a tauroctony scene.
 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
In the garden of Vogt on the north side of the castellum Butzbach the skin and the hoof of a bull in basalt (H. 0.30) were found in 1842. These fragments, nowadays in the museum of Darmstadt possibly belonged to a scene of Mithras as a bullkiller (Dieffenbach, Tagebuch, 5; Wetterau in AHGA IV, 212; Kofler, Butzbach (ORL 14) 20, No. 5).

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