Monumentum
Open-work tauroctony from Apulum
Fragment of an open-work marble tauroctony from the Mithraeum at Apulum, Dacia, preserving Mithras's head with only the snout of the bull; the relief is framed by a border.
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
TNMM 1846 ↔ CIMRM 1954
Fragment of an open-work relief (H. 0.36 Br. 0.10–0.33 base).
Christescu in Dacia III–IV, 1927–1932, 620 No. 1 and fig. 1; Daicoviciu in Dacia VII–VIII, 1937–1940, 308 No. 11a; LeRoy Campbell in Berytus XI, 1954, 46 No. 33.
Mithras as a bullkiller. The god's head, r. leg and cloak; the bull's tail and hindleg are lost. The dog and the serpent near the wound, no scorpion visible. Cautes (r) with upraised torch and cross-legged; Cautopates is lost. In the base an inscription:
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
