Tauroctony slab from Han Potoci

TNMM 2400 ↔ CIMRM 1891

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. In the centre of the lower part is a hole in order to attach it to a pin. The monument probably was to have another destination because into the back the outline of a column had been cut out. In its upper side an inscription: