Monumentum
Lost tauroctony relief from Apulum
Lost tauroctony relief from Apulum, Dacia, formerly at the Palace of the Prince at Alba Julia, recorded only in early modern sources.
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
TNMM 1873 ↔ CIMRM 1992
Relief, formerly at the Palace of the Prince (Now a barracks) at Alba Julia. Now lost.
Gruterus, Inscr., 34 No. 10; Zoega, Abh., 150 No. 30; MMM II No. 201.
Underneath the inscription 'exprimitur vir chlamyde reducta sub bracchium; tauri iacentis tergum premit genu dextro, pede sinistro eius pedem, manu dextra complectitur rictum tauri, sinistro admovet parazonio. Canis erectus invadit taurinam gulam, serpens ventrem' (Gruterus).
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
