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Tauroctony relief fragment from Pregrade

Right portion of a marble tauroctony relief from near Pregrade, Pannonia Superior, preserving Mithras killing the bull with dog, serpent, and scorpion; the greater part of the god and the bull's head are lost.
Tauroctony relief fragment from Pregrade

Tauroctony relief fragment from Pregrade
CIMRM

 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026

TNMM 2319 ↔ CIMRM 1470

Right part of marble relief (H. 0.28 Br. 0.265 D. 0.05). Exact find-spot unknown. Zagreb, Arch. Museum, Magazines.

Unpublished. See fig. 374.

The front part of Mithras as a bullkiller. The greater part of the god is lost as well as the bull's head. The dog and the serpent are near the wound; only a small part of the scorpion. Before the bull standing Cautes with a torch in his l.h.; his head is lost; not cross-legged.

In the bottom border an inscription:

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