Monumentum
Tauroctony from Stixneusiedl
Limestone tauroctony relief from Carnuntum with traces of polychromy and a graffito on the bull’s neck. The inscribed base was carved separately.
Tauroctony from Stixneusiedl.
Fotoabteilung Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
Tauroctony from Stixneusiedl.
Fotoabteilung Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
The New Mithraeum
23 May 2021
Updated on Feb 2026
Relief in limestone of the country (H. 0.57–0.97 Br. 1.53 D. 0.20). Inv. No. I, 254.Wiener Modezeitung, 19 June 1816 No. 25; Hormayr, Wien, CLX; Steinbüchel, Beschr. Thes., 10; Seel, Mithrasgeh., 324ff and Pl. XIV, c; Müller, Mithras, fig. 17; Lajard, Intr., LXXXVII, 1; Steinbüchel in Wiener Jahrbücher 66, 1834, 137; de Hammer, Mithr., 95 No. 17; Arneth, Meilensteine, No. 250; Sacken-Kenner, Samml., 49 No. 230; MMM II 332f No. 229 and fig. 207; LeRoy Campbell in Berytus XI, 1954, 48 No. 127; Nagy in AErt 85, 1958, 9 and fig. 1. See fig. 423.Mithras as a bullkiller…
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