Monumentum
Circular tauroctony relief from Linz
Small circular marble tauroctony relief from the Mithraeum at Linz, ancient Lentia, depicting Mithras killing the bull with dog, serpent, and scorpion, flanked by cross-legged torchbearers with a lion behind Cautopates; the lower section is divided into three subsidiary scenes.
Circular tauroctony relief from LinzCIMRM
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
TNMM 2288 ↔ CIMRM 1415
Circular marble relief (diam. 0.15). See fig. 362.
Karnitsch, 249 No. 237 and Pl. XI.
Mithras as a bullkiller with dog, serpent and scorpion. The god's head is lost. Cautes (r) and Cautopates (l) are cross-legged; behind the latter a lion is visible.
In the lower part of the relief there are three scenes divided from each other by a vertical rim:
1) Indistinct.
2) Mithras and Sol at the repast.
3) Mithras ascends Sol's car.
Traces of red painting.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
