Monumentum
Second tauroctony relief from Schwadorf
Fragment of a sandstone tauroctony relief from Schwadorf area, ancient Aequinoctium in Pannonia Superior, depicting Mithras killing the bull; the upper part of Mithras's body, the head, and parts of the bull are lost.
Second tauroctony relief from SchwadorfCIMRM
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
TNMM 2355 ↔ CIMRM 1654
Fragment of a relief in sandstone (H. 0.45 Br. 0.78 D. 0.36). The exact find-spot is not known, but it probably comes from the same country as the preceding Nos. Vienna (Wien), Kunsthistorisches Museum. Inv. No. 1535.
MMM II 331 No. 226bis. See fig. 421.
Mithras as a bullkiller. Lost: the upper part of Mithras' body; the head, the end of the tail and the hindlegs of the bull; the head of the dog; the greater part of the scorpion. No traces of the serpent.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
