Monumentum
Tauroctony medallion of Egypt
This tauroctony may have come from Hermopolis and its style suggests a Thraco-Danubian origin.
Tauroctony medallion from Egypt.
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The New Mithraeum
23 Jan 2022
Updated on Jan 2026
Exped. Sieglin l.c. cites "das Fragment einer Marmorscheibe mit Mithras-darstellung in der Sammlung Rubensohn in Berlin" [The fragment of a marble disc with a depiction of Mithras, from the Rubensohn collection in Berlin].
Two other mithraic pieces may also have come from Hermopolis, though neither has a recorded provenance other than simply Egypt.
The first is the lower part of a sizeable marble roundel (d. c.15 cm) acquired in 1965 by the Archaölogisches Seminar, Münster as part of the Rubensohn collection. It preserves what is clearly a portion of the mithraic tauroctony —
Two other mithraic pieces may also have come from Hermopolis, though neither has a recorded provenance other than simply Egypt.
The first is the lower part of a sizeable marble roundel (d. c.15 cm) acquired in 1965 by the Archaölogisches Seminar, Münster as part of the Rubensohn collection. It preserves what is clearly a portion of the mithraic tauroctony —
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