Monumentum
Tauroctony from Aigio
The Tauroctony of Patras was found years before the temple over which the relief of Mithras sacrificing the bull was supposed to preside.
Tauroctony of PatrasCIMRM
The New Mithraeum
24 Aug 2021
Updated on May 2026
TNMM 361 ↔ CIMRM 2351 & 2352
White marble slab the left side of which is broken off (H. 0.44 Br. 0.32 D. 0.06- 0.09), found at Patras in 1911. Patras, Gymnasium.
The damaged relief shows Mithras as a bullkiller. The r. arm and the r. leg are lost. The dog, the snake and the scorpion. Before the bull a standing Cautes with upraised torch in his r.h. The bust of Luna in the r. upper corner. Above the bull’s head a standing person who leans on a sceptre (Jupiter?). On the left of Mithras’ head a kind of triangle.
In the lower border an inscription:
CIMRM 2352
Ann. ep. 1912 No. 282.
L.H. 0.0125.
Soli invic/to milites/ ..... uist/ .... esarcus
Main inscription
Soli invic/to milites/ ..... uist/ .... esarcus.
The soldiers [dedicated this] to Sol Invictus; … Vist… … Esarcus.
References
Avezou-Picard in RHR 1911, 179ff and fig., cf. AJA 1912,444; LeRoy Campbell in Berytus XI, 1954, 46 No. 79.
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
