Monumentum
Rock-cut tauroctony from Cavtat
Tauroctony relief carved directly into the rock of the Mithraeum on the Colle S. Giorgio near Cavtat, ancient Epidaurum in Dalmatia; the composition includes Sol, Luna, Cautes, and Cautopates flanking the central scene.
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
Relief (H. 0.50 Br. 0.80) carved out in the rock of a Mithraeum which "stands on the Colle S. Giorgio that overlooks the site of Epidaurum on the land side:" Sv. Juraj near Močiči. The relief has now been taken down from the wall and is at Cavtat, Municipal Museum.A. J. Evans in Archaeologia XLVIII, 1884, 19f; Through Bosnia and the Herzegovina, 387; v. Schneider in AEMO IX, 1885, 81; MMM II 334f and 502 No. 233; Grabičević in AJ I 1954, 37 No. 19 and fig. 3.The rocky wall in which the relief was carved out probably was the backwall of the Mithraeum of which no more traces are extant…
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