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Multi-fragment tauroctony from Sarmizegetusa

Three fragments of a yellowish marble tauroctony from the Mithraeum at Sarmizegetusa, Dacia, with the left upper corner showing Mithras's flying cloak and parts of the subsidiary scenes.
 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
Three fragments of a yellowish marble relief (H. 0.165 Br. 0.225 D. 0.02).Studniczka, 209 No. 17; Kiraly, 37f No. 107; MMM II 287 No. 151. See fig. 554.One fragment (H. 0.10 Br. 0.125).The l. upper corner of a relief with part of Mithras' flying cloak and the raven. The dressed bust of Sol underneath which the head and the r. shoulder of a torchbearer (probably Cautopates).

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