Tauroctony relief from Callatis

TNMM 2525 ↔ CIMRM 2310

Three fragments of a white marble relief (H. 0.31–0.18 Br. 0.30–0.10 D. 0.05), found at Gànt la Mangalia (Callatis). Orasului Vasile Roaita, Muzeul de Antichitati.

Unpublished, see fig. 640. I am very grateful to Prof. Dr. E. Condurachi who drew my attention to this relief and who helped me in so many difficulties during my visit at Constanța. I am equally obliged to Dr. Horia Slobozeanu, the Director of the Museum, who gave me permission to study, photograph and publish this monument.

Mithras as a bullkiller of which only the god's knee is preserved. The foremost part of the bull and its head got lost. The foremost part of the dog; the serpent near the wound.

Under this scene and separated from it by a horizontal rim from l. to r.:

1) The bull in a boat. Only the hindmost part of this representation is preserved.

2) Reclining Oceanus with a vase. He holds with his r.h. the boat.

3) Mithras riding the bull.