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Tauroctony of Gimmeldingen

This relief of Mithras killing the bull found in Gimmeldingen, Germany, lacks the usual raven.
Tauroctony of Gimmeldingen

Tauroctony of Gimmeldingen
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The New Mithraeum
25 Oct 2023
Updated on 27 Oct 2023
 

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Relief in sandstone (H. 1.10 Br. 1.42 D. 0.26).

The usual representation of Mithras killing the bull whose tail ends in three corn-ears. The dog, the serpent and the scorpion; no traces of the raven. Cautes (l) and Cautopates (r) with burning torches in the usual attitude. The bust of Sol (l) in a crown of thirteen rays and in a nimbus; the bust of Luna (r) with crescent.

Sprater, 3 and fig. 2; Esp. Rec. Gaule X, 183 No. 7545; LeRoy Campbell in Berytus XI, 1954,49 No. 187. See fig. 348.

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