Tauroctony relief from Gardun

TNMM 2387 ↔ CIMRM 1857

Fragment of a relief in limestone (H. 0.19 Br. 0.10 D. 0.04) found at Gardun "in un fondo detto" Oglavak "di Joza Roguljić del fu Ivár". Gardun is situated near Sinj. Split, Archaeological Museum.

Bulić in BASD XXVI, 1903, 135f No. 3263; Grabičević in AJ I 1954, 37 No. 7 and fig. 1. See fig. 474 kindly supplied by B. Grabičević.

The relief is sculptured on two sides.

F r o n t: part of the arched grotto in which the upper part of Cautes' burning torch. In the border an inscription. In the r. upper corner the bust of Luna with crescent on her forehead.

R e v e r s e: walking bull to the r. The foremost part is lost. Behind him a tree. Underneath it and separated from it by a horizontal rim the head and the r. shoulder of a person in Phrygian cap.