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Monumentum

Circular tauroctony relief border from Linz

Two fragments of a larger circular marble relief from the Mithraeum at Linz, ancient Lentia, preserving only the legs of the torchbearers and the outer border, with subsidiary scenes including the rock-birth and an ibex.

The New Mithraeum

28 May 2026

Two fragments (H. 0.037–0.04) of a circular marble relief (diam. 0.35).Karnitsch, 250 No. 238a–b and Pl. XII.Two fragments of the border which surrounded the scene of Mithras as a bullkiller. Only the legs of the torchbearers are preserved.1) Mithras' rockbirth. Above this scene the lower part of a walking person to the right.2) An ibex or a goat; above it the feet of another animal.

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