Monumentum
Tauroctony medallion of Egypt
This tauroctony may have come from Hermopolis and its style suggests a Thraco-Danubian origin.
Tauroctony medallion from Egypt
CIMRM via Tertullian.org
The New Mithraeum
23 Jan 2022
Updated on 22 Sep 2023
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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 — filling originally the upper two-thirds of the field — with, in the lower register, a lion, a vessel, and then
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