Monumentum
Second tauroctony relief from Sopron
Marble tauroctony relief from the Mithraeum at Sopron, ancient Scarabantia, depicting the standard bull-slaying with raven, dog, scorpion, and cross-legged torchbearers.
Second tauroctony relief from SopronCIMRM
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
TNMM 2344 ↔ CIMRM 1641
Marble relief (H. 0.48 Br. 0.39 D. 0.08). See fig. 419.
Bella, 326f and fig.; Kuzsinszky, 25f and fig.; Cumont, Textes II, 391 No. 236.
Mithras as a bullkiller in the usual dress and attitude. The raven on the grotto's border. The dog near the wound; the scorpion. Cautopates (l) cross-legged with torch downwards. Cautes (r) with torch upwards. In the bottom border an inscription:
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
