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Tauroctony fragment from Axiopolis

Marble tauroctony fragment from Axiopolis, Moesia Inferior, preserving only a small part of Mithras's knee, the hind part of the bull, and the scorpion.
Tauroctony fragment from Axiopolis

Tauroctony fragment from Axiopolis
CIMRM

 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026

TNMM 2497 ↔ CIMRM 2279

Fragment of a marble relief (H. 0.30 Br. 0.26 D. 0.105). Bucarest, National Museum. Inv. No. L 1107.

Tudor in Materiale și Cercetări arheologice II, 1956, 574 and fig. 2d. See fig. 633.

Mithras as a bullkiller. Small part of Mithras' knee; the hind part of the bull; the scorpion. In the bottom border part of an inscription and a small part of the serpent.

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