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Monumentum

Tauroctony lower right from Sarmizegetusa

Fragment of a bluish marble tauroctony from the Mithraeum at Sarmizegetusa, Dacia, preserving the right lower corner with the bull's knee, the dog, and the lower part of Cautes.
 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
Fragment of a bluish marble relief (H. 0.17–0.13 Br. 0.23 D. 0.03).Studniczka, 210 No. 20; Kiraly, 43 No. 117 and Pl. XIII, 2; MMM II 288 No. 154 and fig. 137.R. bottom corner: the knee of the bull, the dog, the lower part of Cautes with broken torch and a krater above the head of the lion. In the bottom border an inscription:

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