CIMRM Supplement - Mithraeum II - Tauroctony. Köln, Germany.
By Carole Raddato. From: Flickr.
From: Flickr. By Electropod, September 5, 2012. Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln, item RGM 2008,37.
A tauroctony. The dog, snake and scorpion in their usual positions. Sol in the top left with a rayed crown, one ray of which is extended out towards Mithras. Beneath Sol a raven. A cock facing the bull on the right-hand side.
RP: Found online. Presumably from Mithraeum 2, discovered in 1969. In the Romisches-Germanisches Museum, Köln.
See also Wikimedia Commons item which gives the date as 2-3rd c. AD.
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