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Tauroctony relief from Fellbach

Large grey sandstone tauroctony relief from Fellbach near Cannstatt, depicting the bull-slaying in a vaulted grotto with torchbearers, Sol, Luna, and subsidiary Mithraic scenes along the border.
Tauroctony relief from Fellbach

Tauroctony relief from Fellbach
CIMRM

 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026

TNMM 2206 ↔ CIMRM 1306

Relief in grey sandstone (H. 1.33 Br. 1.18 D. 0.30), found at Fellbach near Cannstatt. Stuttgart, Württ. Landesmus.

Sixt, Schwaben I, 48ff and fig.; MMM II 341f No. 241 and fig. 215; Haug-Sixt, Röm. Inschr. Württ., 248f No. 348; Esp. Rec. Germ., 245ff No. 390 and fig.; Koepp, Germ. Rom. IV², 57 and Pl. XXXIV, 2; Schoppa, Pl. 89. See fig. 349.

The relief has a vaulted grotto in which the usual bullkilling is represented. Mithras is not kneeling on the bull's back but stands frontally with his l. leg bended. Behind the bull a krater; a lion near the bull. On l. an altar with a crescent and a triangle. In the upper corners the busts of Sol (l) and Luna (r). In the bottom border there was originally an inscription:

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