Monumentum
Tauroctony relief from Bechli near Oescus
Limestone tauroctony relief from Bechli, 8 km from Ghighen, ancient Oescus in Moesia Inferior, depicting the standard bull-slaying scene in a grotto.
Tauroctony relief from Bechli near OescusCIMRM
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
TNMM 2485 ↔ CIMRM 2251
Relief in limestone (H. 0.58 Br. 0.57 D. 0.14), found at Bechli, 8 kmtrs from Ghighen. Sofia, National Museum.
MMM II 489f No. 131ter and fig. 424; Dobrusky in Sbornik XVI 1900, 43 No. 8; LeRoy Campbell in Berytus XI, 1954, 45 No. 31. See fig. 624.
Mithras as a bullkiller in a grotto. The dog, the serpent and the scorpion; the raven on the grotto's border; no torchbearers. Outside the grotto's border are the busts of Sol (l) and Luna (r).
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
