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Monumentum

Multi-fragment tauroctony from Sarmizegetusa

Four fragments of a bluish marble tauroctony from the Mithraeum at Sarmizegetusa, Dacia, with the central bull-slaying partially preserved including the Sol bust and a figure in Phrygian cap.
Multi-fragment tauroctony from Sarmizegetusa

Multi-fragment tauroctony from Sarmizegetusa
CIMRM

 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026

TNMM 1910 ↔ CIMRM 2055

Four fragments of a bluish marble relief (H. 0.332 Br. 0.06–0.18 D. 0.02).

Studniczka, 214 No. 28 and 210f No. 23; Kiraly, 42 No. 115 and 45 No. 124 and Pl. XXIV, 1; MMM II 289 No. 157 and 292 No. 164 and figs. 142, 147. See fig. 545.

Of the central bullkiller representation are preserved: the raven on Mithras' cloak; the bust of Sol (l) and next to it the scorpion; the serpent and cross-legged Cautopates with one torch downwards. Mithras taurophorus to the r. and next to it an inscription. Sol in a quadriga. Illegible remnants of an inscription in the bottom border.

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