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Tauroctony upper right from unknown provenance

Limestone tauroctony relief fragment of unknown provenance, preserving the upper part of the right torchbearer of a bull-slaying scene.
Tauroctony upper right from unknown provenance
Tauroctony upper right from unknown provenanceCIMRM
 
The New Mithraeum
29 May 2026

TNMM 2566 ↔ CIMRM 2194

Fragment of a relief in limestone (H. 0.28 Br. 0.31 D. 0.08). Formerly Coll. Mauros (Inv. No. L. 985).

MMM II 274 No. 128 and fig. 116; Tocilescu, Mon. ep. sculpt., 531f No. 14 and fig. 14. See fig. 603.

Of the scene of Mithras tauroctone only the upper part of the r. torchbearer is preserved. Behind him the representation of Mithras' rockbirth. The god holds a torch (l.h.) and a knife (r.h.) in his upraised hands. Above him part of a reclining person partly covered by a cloak (Saturnus or Oceanus). The head is lost.

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