This site uses cookies to offer you a better browsing experience.
Find out more on how we use cookies in our privacy policy.

 
Enter
Support The New Mithraeum The New Mithraeum is an independent, non-profit project dedicated to Mithraic studies, ancient religions and classical culture. Developed and maintained independently since 2007, the site exists without advertising, paywalls or institutional funding. If you have found value in its articles, interviews, photographs or database, please consider supporting the project with a contribution. Every contribution helps keep The New Mithraeum open, free and alive. Thank you.
Support us →
Monumentum

Tauroctony fragment from Ulmetum

Marble tauroctony relief fragment from the Byzantine camp at Pontelimonul de sus, ancient Ulmetum in Moesia Inferior, found reused in the masonry; the subject is partly identifiable.
 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026

TNMM 2493 ↔ CIMRM 2275

Fragment of a marble relief (H. 0.073–0.098 Br. 0.072–0.06 D. 0.026), found near the stairs of the first bastion north-east of the Byzantine camp at Pontelimonul de sus where much Roman material is used.

Parvan in AAcRom (S. II) XXXVI, 1913, 330 No. 2 and Pl. I, 1; AA 1915, 239 No. 6.

The hindmost part of a representation of Mithras as a bullkiller. The r. leg of the god standing on the hindleg of the bull, the tail of the serpent; cross-legged Cautopates (l) up to the hips.

In the bottom border an inscription:

References

Back to Top