Monumentum
Tauroctony relief with corn-ear tail from Turda
Fragment of a white marble tauroctony relief from Turda, ancient Potaissa in Dacia, depicting the bull-slaying with the bull's tail ending in three corn-ears, the dog, serpent, and scorpion.
Tauroctony relief with corn-ear tail from TurdaCIMRM
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
TNMM 1834 ↔ CIMRM 1924
Fragment of a relief in white marble (H. 0.21 Br. 0.18–0.20 D. 0.03). Found at Turda. Cluj, Museum Inv. No. 2565.
Torma AK VI, 1866; MMM II 318f No. 206. See fig. 502.
Mithras as a bullkiller. The bull's tail ends in three corn-ears. The dog and the serpent. The scorpion. In the bottom border an inscription:
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
