Monumentum
Tauroctony relief from Flavia Solva
White marble relief fragment from near Klein-Wagna, ancient Flavia Solva in Noricum, preserving part of a tauroctony scene including the bull, Mithras's dagger, and the torchbearers.
Tauroctony relief from Flavia SolvaCIMRM
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
TNMM 2305 ↔ CIMRM 1446
Fragment of white marble relief (H. 0.24 Br. 0.23 D. 0.11). Found in St. Veit am Vogan about 6 kms east of Klein-Wagna = Flavia Solva (Kreis Leibnitz). Graz, Joanneum, Inv. No. 138. See fig. 367.
67. Jahresber. d. Steiermärk.-landschaftl. Joanneums zu Graz über das Jahr 1878, 15; Erna Diez in JOAI XXXIX, 1952 (Beiblatt) 221ff and fig. 94 with former bibliography.
Only the right upper corner is preserved. Dressed bust of Luna to the right; behind her shoulders a crescent. She is represented in a round medallion. Below it the head of Cautes and the upper part of his flaming torch. Before it part of the bull's head. At the reverse the marble is rough; so the relief had probably been inserted in a wall.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
