Monumentum
Large tauroctony relief from Schwadorf
Fragment of a large sandstone tauroctony relief from Schwadorf, ancient Aequinoctium, depicting Mithras killing the bull; the upper part of the god's body, his head, the end of the tail, and the scorpion are lost.
Large tauroctony relief from SchwadorfCIMRM
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
TNMM 2354 ↔ CIMRM 1653
Fragment of a large relief in sandstone (H. 0.87 Br. 1.55 D. 0.12–0.29), from Schwadorf. Vienna (Wien), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Inv. No. I, 277b.
MMM II 331 No. 226 and fig. 204, who is of the opinion that it is from Carnuntum; LeRoy Campbell in Berytus XI, 1954, 45 No. 25. See fig. 420.
Mithras as a bullkiller. Lost: the upper part of the god's body, of his r. leg and mantle are lost as well as the upper part of the bull's head and the end of its tail. The scorpion in the usual place; only parts of the serpent and the dog are preserved.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
