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Tauroctony relief from Enns

Small limestone tauroctony relief from Enns, ancient Lauriacum in Noricum, found about 100 metres east of the north-east corner of the castra, depicting Mithras killing the bull with dog and serpent and flanking torchbearers.
Tauroctony relief from EnnsCIMRM
 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
Relief in limestone (H. 0.26 Br. 0.195 D. 0.025), found about 100 mtrs east of the N-E corner of the Castra Lauriacum. Enns, Museum. See fig. 364.J. Amstler in Pro Austria Romana II, 1952, 30f; H. Deringer, Ein Mithrasrelief aus Lauriacum in JOAI XL, 1953 (Beibl.) 179ff and fig. 86.In the centre Mithras as a bullkiller with dog and serpent near the wound. Cautopates (l) and Cautes (r); the head and the l. arm of the latter are lost. Between Mithras and Cautopates a lion's head is visible. In the arched border of the grotto there are several scenes:1) Mithras carries the bull…

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