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Tauroctony relief reconstruction from Mackwiller

Reconstructed tauroctony relief from the Mithraeum at Mackwiller, assembled from multiple stone fragments and preserving Mithras's head, shoulders, dagger hand, flying cloak, and parts of the bull and torchbearers.
 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026

TNMM 2215 ↔ CIMRM 1331

J. J. Hatt in CAAAH 1957, 78 and fig. 22 gives a provisory reconstruction of the relief with the scene of Mithras as a bullkiller:

1) Part of the rock.

2) The breast, the l. shoulder, the r. arm; the r.h. with dagger, the l. arm, the Phrygian cap of Mithras. Parts of the flying cloak and of the hips.

3) The bull's muzzle and the fingers of Mithras' l.h. Part of the bull's horn.

4) The head, the bust and torso, one knee of a torchbearer in Phrygian cap (Cautopates?). The eyes were laid in with glass (CRAI 1955, 406 and fig. 2; CAAAH, fig. 15).

5) The greater part of the body of the torchbearer; his Phrygian cap, part of a flaming torch (Cautes?).

6) The head of a Wind-god (CRAI 1955, 406 and fig. 3; CAAAH, fig. 21).

7) Torso of Sol and head of a horse.

8) A burning altar(?).

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