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Monumentum

Tauroctony relief with inscription from Turda

Lost white marble tauroctony relief from Turda, ancient Potaissa in Dacia, depicting the bull-slaying with dog, serpent, and scorpion; the inscription in the lower border named the dedicant Iulius Iulianus.

The New Mithraeum

27 May 2026

Relief in white marble (H. 0.35 Br. 0.45) found at Turda. Now lost.Köppen, Nachricht 17 No. XII; de Hammer, Mithriaca 93 No. 13; MMM II 318 No. 205.Mithras as a bullkiller. The dog and the serpent. The scorpion. In the bottom border an inscription:

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