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Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Iarlovtsi

Weathered marble tauroctony relief from Iarlovtsi near Trn, Thracia, depicting the standard bull-slaying with dog, serpent, and the busts of Sol and Luna in the upper corners.
 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
Marble relief (H. 0.24 Br. 0.20 D. 0.02), found at Iarlovtsi (distr. Trn). Sofia, National Museum.Kazarow in BSAB 1911, 55 No. 6 and fig. 6; LeRoy Campbell in Berytus XI, 1954, 50 No. 221 and Pl. III, 3.The weathered relief has the usual representation of Mithras as a bullkiller. The dog, the serpent and the cross-legged torchbearers are no longer clearly visible. In the r. upper corner the bust of Luna to which probably a bust of Sol corresponded.

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