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Monumentum

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 FellbachCIMRM
 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
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…

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