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
TNMM 2534 ↔ CIMRM 2319
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.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
