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Monumentum

Altar with rose and bull's head from Apulum

Lost limestone altar from Apulum, Dacia, decorated on the sides with a rose and serpent, on the reverse with a bull's head; the front bears a Mithraic inscription.
 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026

TNMM 1871 ↔ CIMRM 1989

Altar, found at Apulum but the exact find-spot is unknown. Formerly at Alba Julia, afterwards in Cluj, now lost. On the l. side a rose; on the r. side a rose and a serpent; on the reverse a bull's head. In the front:

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