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Monumentum

Tauroctony upper body fragment from unknown provenance

Limestone tauroctony relief fragment of unknown provenance, preserving the upper part of Mithras as bull-slayer with the flying cloak on which the raven is perched.
 
The New Mithraeum
29 May 2026
Fragments of a relief in limestone (H. 0.29 Br. 0.38 D. 0.11). Formerly Coll. Mauros (Inv. No. L. 1437).MMM II 274 No. 129; Tocilescu, Mon. ep. sculpt., 533f No. 15 and fig. 15.The upper part of the body of Mithras as a bullkiller with the flying cloak on which the raven. Of the bull only one horn and the tail are preserved. The tail ends in three corn-ears. Cautopates (l) leans on his torch. In the upper corners the busts of Sol (l) and of Luna (r). Between them were other representations, now lost.

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