Monumentum
Tauroctony with torchbearers from Acbunar
Four white marble tauroctony fragments from Acbunar, Moesia Inferior, depicting the standard bull-slaying with cross-legged torchbearers.
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
TNMM 2507 ↔ CIMRM 2290
Four fragments of a white marble relief (H. 0.33 Br. 0.30 D. 0.045–0.05). Bucarest, National Museum.
Parvan in AAcRom. 1913, 513, 2 (545, 2) and Pl. VIII, 1; LeRoy Campbell in Berytus XI, 1954, 50 No. 191.
Mithras as a bullkiller with the dog and the serpent. Cautes (r) and Cautopates (l) standing cross-legged; the upper part of Cautes' body and some parts of Cautopates are lost. According to Parvan the raven is visible above Cautopates' head.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
