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Monumentum

Serpent fragment from Kirk-Bunar

Marble tauroctony relief fragment from Kirk-Bunar near the monastery of St. Petka, Moesia Inferior, preserving part of the creeping serpent as proof of a bull-slaying composition.
Serpent fragment from Kirk-BunarCIMRM
 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
Fragment of a marble relief (H. 0.125 Br. 0.145 D. 0.04) found in the region of Kirk-Bunar (fourty wells) near the monastery of St. Petka. Stanimaka, Grammarschool.Kazarow in BIAB VI, 1930–1931, 123 No. 12 and fig. 113. See fig. 636.Part of the creeping serpent proves a representation of Mithras as a bullkiller. Under it:1) Mithras holding a long object above the head of Sol who kneels before him.2) Mithras and Sol at the repast. Before the table a lying lion.

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