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Tauroctony slab from Han Potoci

Limestone slab from a Roman settlement at Bijelo Polje north-east of Mostar, ancient area of Han Potoci in Dalmatia, found in 1902 and probably dating to the fourth century AD, depicting a Mithraic scene.
 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
Slab in limestone (H. 0.825 Br. 0.78 D. 0.163) found in 1902 among the remnants of a Roman settlement at Bijelo Polje N-E of Mostar on the r. bank of the brook Potoci and l. of the road to Ruište. Sarajevo, Archaeological Museum. Probably fourth cent. A.D.Patsch in WMBH IX, 1904, 265 No. 5 and fig. 139; Grabičević in Glasnik Sarajevu (N.S.) VII, 1953, 141ff and fig. 2; AJ I, 1954, 51 n. 22. See fig. 487.By two vertical lines the slab is divided into three parts. In the central part a vase from which two irregular lines (water?) run in the direction of the bottom corners…

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