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Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Timočka Krajina

Damaged white marble tauroctony relief from Timočka Krajina, Moesia Superior, depicting the bull-slaying with corn-ear tail, dog, serpent, scorpion, and torchbearers.
 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
Damaged white marble relief, found at Timočka Krajina. Neither the Museum nor the measurements are known.Bulic in Spomenik LXXVII, 60, 1934, 70 No. 6 and fig.Mithras as a bullkiller; the bull's tail ends in corn-ears. The dog, the serpent and the scorpion; the raven is lost. Cautopates (l) and Cautes (r) are cross-legged and hold the torches with both hands. Under the main scene there were other smaller scenes of which only a small part of a cloak is preserved.

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