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Monumentum

Tauroctony lower right corner from Sarmizegetusa

Right lower corner of a greyish marble tauroctony from the Mithraeum at Sarmizegetusa, Dacia, preserving the bull's knees and dewlap, the dog, part of the serpent, and the lower part of Cautes.
 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
R. bottom corner of a greyish marble relief (H. 0.04–0.07 Br. 0.06–0.10 D. 0.02).Studniczka, 208 No. 9; Kiraly, 37 No. 106; MMM II 258f No. 145.The knees of the bull and part of the dew-lap. The dog, a small part of the serpent; the lower part of Cautes (r) with part of the upraised torch. He is in Oriental dress and cross-legged.

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