Monumentum
Frontal tauroctony relief from Gaganica
Rough relief from Gaganica, Thracia, depicting Mithras as bull-slayer in an unusual frontal attitude, wearing only a shoulder-cape and holding the dagger upwards; with dog, serpent, scorpion, and a non-cross-legged Cautes.
Frontal tauroctony relief from GaganicaCIMRM
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
TNMM 2536 ↔ CIMRM 2327
Welkow in BIAB XIV, 1940–1942, 268 No. 1 and fig. 363. See fig. 646.
The rough relief shows Mithras as a bullkiller in a frontal attitude. He only wears a shoulder-cape and holds the dagger upwards in his r.h. The dog, the serpent and the scorpion. Cautes (r) with upraised torch is not cross-legged; Cautopates (l) is not clearly visible.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
