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Monumentum

Tauroctony upper portion from Tomis

Three white marble tauroctony fragments from Constanța, ancient Tomis in Moesia Inferior, preserving the upper part of Mithras as bull-slayer with flanking divine busts.
 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
Three fragments of a white marble relief (H. 0.37 Br. 0.49 D. 0.05), probably found at Constanța. Bucarest, National Museum (Coll. Mauros). Inv. No. L. 1756.MMM II 274 No. 130 and fig. 117; Tocilescu, 529 No. 13 and fig. 13. See fig. 637.The upper part of Mithras as a bullkiller. The r. bottom corner with one foreleg of the bull against which the dog leaps up. A burning altar. A walking person in a short tunic and a cap with a long velum. He holds a torch upwards in his r.h. Another fragment shows Cautopates and the tail of the bull. Only the upper part of his body is preserved…

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