Tauroctony from Dormagen
TNMM 264 ↔ CIMRM 1012 & 1013
Relief in limestone (H.0.51 Br. 0.57 D.0.16). Bonn, Rheinisches Landesmuseum.
Mithras as a bullkiller in the usual attitude and dress. His l. arm from the elbow is missing. The bull is represented and its tail ends in three corn-ears. The background is rocky; the dog leaps up against the bull; the serpent creeps over the ground; the scorpion is in the usual place. In the r. upper corner Luna. The face of Mithras, the bust of Sol and the raven are lost.
The bottom rim bears an inscription:
CIL XIII 8523
References
Lajard, Pl. LXXXI; Stark, o.c., Pl. I; Dorow, l.c.; MMM II 387 and fig. 299; Hettner, Katalog, No. 70; Koepp, Germ. Rom., IV, 57 and Taf. XXXV, 1; Lehner, Sk., II Taf. X, 4; Führer I Taf. XXVII, 2; St. 224; Esp. Rec. Gaule VIII, 282 No. 6335; Le Roy Campbell in Berytus XI, 1954,48 No. 156.
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
