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The torchbearers are at work. Expect the occasional flicker while we tend the grotto.

Monumentum

Fragment of a Mithraic tauroctony from Dacia

This marble fragment from Roman Dacia preserves part of a tauroctony with Sol, the raven, and Mithras dragging the bull.
  • Fragment of Tauroctony from Deva, Romania.

    Fragment of Tauroctony from Deva, Romania.
    Ortolf Harl 2010

  • Fragment of Tauroctony from Deva, Romania.

    Fragment of Tauroctony from Deva, Romania.
    CIMRM

  • CIMRM 2062

    CIMRM 2062
    Vermaseren's Corpus

 
The New Mithraeum
15 May 2026

TNMM 1412 ↔ CIMRM 2062

Four fragments of a bluish marble relief (H. 0.59-0.69 Br. 0.36-0.53 D. 0.05).

  1. The representation of Mithras as a bullkiller in a grotto. Preserved: Mithras’ flying cloak; one corn-ear of the bull’s tail; the raven; the upper part of Cautopates with the torch downwards and with crossed legs. He stretches his l. arm out towards the bull’s tail. Beside him a representation of Mithras riding the bull; above it Mithras taurophorus and the dressed bust of Sol with a crown of six rays.
  2. A torchbearer from the hips to the knees; he is cross-legged.
  3. The head of the bull and Mithras’ hand with the dagger.
  4. The r. shoulder of Mithras with a fragment of his dress.

References

Studniczka, 210 No. 22 and Pl. VII, 3a, b, c; Kiraly, 41f No. 114 and Pl. IX, 1; MMM II 288f No. 156 and figs. 139, 140, 141. See fig. 549.

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