Monumentum
Tauroctony with Sol and Luna from Virovsko
Limestone tauroctony relief from Virovsko near Vratsa, Thracia, depicting Mithras killing the bull with dog and raven, flanked by torchbearers, with Sol and Luna busts in the upper corners.
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
TNMM 2535 ↔ CIMRM 2326
Relief in limestone (H. 0.46 Br. 0.46 D. 0.12), found at Virovsko (distr. Vratza). Vratza, Museum.
I. Welkow-I. Wenidikow in BSAB XV, 1946, 229.
Mithras as a bullkiller with dog and raven. On either side a torchbearer; the busts of Sol (l) and of Luna (r) in the upper corners.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
