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Tauroctony relief from unknown provenance

Arched white marble tauroctony relief of unknown provenance, depicting the standard bull-slaying in the usual attitude with dog and serpent.
Tauroctony relief from unknown provenance
Tauroctony relief from unknown provenanceCIMRM
 
The New Mithraeum
29 May 2026

TNMM 2563 ↔ CIMRM 2191

Arched relief in white marble (H. 0.19 Br. 0.20 D. 0.02). Formerly in the Coll. Mauros. Inv. No. L. 707.

Hirschfeld in Sb. Ak. Wien 77, 1874, 402; MMM II 273 No. 126; Tocilescu, Mon. ep. sculpt., 83 No. 12 and design. See fig. 602.

Mithras as a bullkiller in the usual attitude and dress. The serpent, the raven and the dog (partly lost). The torchbearers standing cross-legged; they stretch out one hand towards the bull. In the upper corners the busts of Sol (l) and of Luna (r). Between them a representation of Mithras' rockbirth. In the bottom border an inscription:

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