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Tauroctony from Reșca

Tauroctony relief fragment with torchbearer and scene of Mithras’ rockbirth from Romula, Romania.
Tauroctony from Reșca.

Tauroctony from Reșca.
CIMRM

 
The New Mithraeum
23 May 2026

TNMM 1432 ↔ CIMRM 2164

Fragment of a marble relief (H. 0.13 Br. 0.095 D. 0.015) from Romula (Reșca).

Unpublished. See fig. 588.

Scene of Mithras as a bullkiller of which only the bull’s breast and part of his head are preserved. The dog and the r. torchbearer, cross-legged, his l.h. downwards. R. arm, head and feet got lost. Behind him the scene of Mithras’ rockbirth. He rests his l.h. on the rock, his r.h. is raised up. The relief probably had a triangular pediment.

References

Bucarest, National Museum (Inv. No. L. 1647).

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