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
TNMM 2453 ↔ CIMRM 2211
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.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
