Monumentum
Tauroctony with buffalo-like bull from Acbunar
Yellowish marble tauroctony relief from Acbunar, Moesia Inferior, depicting Mithras killing a bull described as unusually buffalo-like; the god looks back at the raven on the grotto's border.
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
TNMM 2506 ↔ CIMRM 2289
Yellowish marble relief (H. 0.52 Br. 0.53 D. 0.06). Bucarest, National Museum.
Parvan, Inceputurile, 75 fig. 47; AAcRom. 1913, 512, 1 (545, 1) and Pl. VII, fig. 1; LeRoy Campbell in Berytus XI, 1954, 48 No. 129.
In a grotto Mithras kills the buffalo-like bull. The god looks back at the raven; the dog, the serpent and the scorpion; no torchbearers. The bust of Sol (l) in radiate crown and the bust of Luna in crescent are represented in the upper corners.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
