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Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Augst

Small limestone tauroctony relief from Augst, ancient Augusta Rauricorum, depicting the bull-slaying with dog and scorpion, flanked by cross-legged torchbearers in Oriental dress; Cautes holds a pedum alongside the upraised torch.
Tauroctony relief from Augst

Tauroctony relief from Augst
CIMRM

 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026

TNMM 2267 ↔ CIMRM 1388

Relief in limestone (H. 0.06 Br. 0.105). See fig. 358.

Staehelin, Schweiz, 561 n. 5.

Mithras as a bullkiller with dog and scorpion. The bull's tail is curled. On either side a standing cross-legged torchbearer in Oriental dress. The head of Cautopates (l), which rests on his l.h. is damaged; Cautes (r) holds the torch (for the greater part lost) upwards in his outstretched r.h. and he holds a pedum against his l. shoulder. The head and the shoulders of Mithras are lost.

Underneath the bull a vase with a serpent which is drinking from it; next to it a lying lion. In the separate bottom-corners the busts of two Windgods with two wings in their hair.

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