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Monumentum

Base with Mithras riding the bull from Apulum

Limestone base from Apulum, Dacia, decorated on the front with Mithras riding the bull to the right while holding an upraised torch — the tauriphoros riding type, distinct from the tauroctony.
Base with Mithras riding the bull from Apulum

Base with Mithras riding the bull from Apulum
CIMRM

 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026

TNMM 1867 ↔ CIMRM 1985

Base in limestone (H. 1.18 Br. 0.35–0.44 D. 0.30–0.38) found in Apulum, but the exact find-spot is unknown. Alba Julia, Muzeul Regional. Inv. No. 33/I.

Fig. 518.

In the front Mithras riding the bull to the r. He holds a burning upraised torch in his r.h. Underneath the forefeet of the bull is a stem with three corn-ears; underneath the hindfeet only the stem is preserved. On the base part of a column (diam. 0.33) which probably bore a statue.

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