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Monumentum

White marble tauroctony from Vintu de Jos

White marble tauroctony relief found in the river Mureș at Vintu de Jos near Apulum, Dacia, around 1859, depicting the bull-slaying with the full iconographic programme.
White marble tauroctony from Vintu de JosCIMRM
 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
White marble relief (H. 0.24 Br. 1.95 D. 0.03), found in the Mureș (Maros) at Vintu de Jos (Alvincz) near Apulum about 1859. Sibiu (= Nagy Szeben = Hermannstadt), Muzeul Regional (Museum Brukenthal). Inv. No. 1826.Studniczka in AEMO VIII, 1884, 34 No. 71; Cumont in AErt 1893, 291; MMM II 313 No. 195 and fig. 171. See fig. 523.The relief is almost identical with a monument from Apulum (see No. 1974) so that they may originate from the same work-shop. There are, however, the following differences:1) The raven is not perched on a krater, but on a rocky stone.2) The division of the nine altars…

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