Monumentum
Tauroctony from Mile, Jajce
This marble relief depicting Mithras as a bull-slayer was once owned by Major Holzhausen and Franz Cumont and is now housed at the Belgian Academy.
The New Mithraeum
20 Dec 2024
Updated on May 2026
TNMM 805 ↔ CIMRM 1906
Marble relief (H. 0.21 Br. 0.26 D. 0.025), found at Miline near Jajce. At first in the collection of Major Holzhausen, then in the Fr. Cumont collection in Rome; now Belgian Academy, Via Omero 8.
The rectangular relief has a representation of Mithras as a bullkiller with the raven, the serpent, the dog and the scorpion. Cautes (r) and Cautopates (I) are both cross-legged and each holds two torches upwards or downwards. The busts of Sol (l) and of Luna (r).
References
Patsch in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes XXXII, 1925,
138; Gabričević AJ I, 1954, 37 No. 15; LeRoy Campbell in Berytus XI 1954,
45 No. 21. See fig. 495.
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
