Monumentum
Triptic of Tróia
The remains of the mithraic triptic of Tróia, Lusitania, were part of a bigger composition.
1.02.01.01. Tríptico Tróia. Museu Nacional de Arqueología de Lisboa.
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
CIMRM 798
Vermaseren's Corpus
The New Mithraeum
12 May 2021
Updated on Oct 2023
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Mendes da Costa in Arch. Port., XXIX, 1930-1931, 5ff and fig. 26; Pidal, Hist. Esp. 11,441 and fig. 250; Cumont in CRAJ 1934,262; RA 1946, 191 and fig. 4; Jalhay in Broteria, XLVI, 1948, 529ff and figs. 3-4. See fig. 217, which we received from Franz Cumont.
A scene of Mithras tauroctone, of which only the foreleg of the bull and a torch-bearer in Eastern attire before it are preserved. The torch is pointed downwards; not cross-legged (Cautopates). In the r. upper corner, above a vaulting, the
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