Tauroctony from Donja Plemenšćina, Pregrada

TNMM 709 ↔ CIMRM 1468 & 1469

Marble relief (H. 0.44 Br. 0.51 D. 0.05-0.068). Found in Donjoj Plemenscini near Pregrade.

I am obliged to the Director of the Museum Dr. Z. Vinski for the permission to take photographs and to publish the find. Zagreb, Arch. Museum (Inv. No. 16).

Primitive representation of Mithras in a grotto. Dog and serpent near the wound; the scorpion is not represented in the usual place, but before the serpent. Above the arch there is the raven. On either side a torchbearer with uplifted torches in both hands. Not cross-legged. In the upper corners in a quadrangular border the busts of Luna in crescent (l) and of Sol in a radiate crown (r). Fourth cent. A.D. according to Seper.

In the bottom rim an inscription:

CIMRM 1469

L.H.0.025.

I(nvicto) D(eo) O(rienti) O(mnipotenti) Val(erius) Marceli/anus ex voto l(ibens) l(aetus) p(osuit).