Monumentum
Tauroctony with Cautes and pedum from Tomis
Marble tauroctony fragment from Constanța, ancient Tomis in Moesia Inferior, depicting the bull-slaying with dog, serpent, and scorpion; Cautes holds both an upraised torch and a pedum.
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
TNMM 2515 ↔ CIMRM 2298
Fragment of a marble relief (H. 0.24 Br. 0.23 D. 0.035), found at Constanța. Bucarest, National Museum.
Teodorescu, Mon. Tomi, 95 No. 39 and fig. 47.
Mithras as a bullkiller with dog, serpent and scorpion. The god wears a girdle. Cautes (r) with upraised torch in his r.h. and a pedum in his l.h.; not cross-legged. Lost: the head and the cloak of Mithras; Cautopates; parts of the torch and parts of Cautes' head; the busts of Sol and of Luna.
In the bottom border from l. to r.:
1) Head and part of the bust of Sol (repast). Next to it a vertical rim.
2) Mithras ascends Sol's quadriga.
3) Reclining god with uncovered breast lifting up his r.h. towards the horses (Oceanus or Saturnus).
In the bottom border remnants of an inscription:
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
