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Monumentum

Small tauroctony statuette from Budapest

White marble statuette from Budapest, ancient Aquincum or vicinity, depicting a badly damaged Mithras killing the bull with dog and serpent; the god's head is lost.

The New Mithraeum

28 May 2026

White marble statue (H. 0.25 Br. 0.21). Budapest, National Museum.Cumont in AÉrt 1893, 294; MMM II 324 No. 217 and fig. 191; RRS III 138, 1; LeRoy Campbell in Berytus XI, 1954, 45 No. 27.Mithras as a bullkiller; badly damaged. The dog and the serpent; the scorpion is missing. Before the bull on a base standing Cautes holding an upraised torch in his r.h. The hindmost part of the group, Mithras' head and the bull's tail are lost.

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