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Monumentum

Weathered tauroctony from Sarmizegetusa

Fragment of a white marble tauroctony from the Mithraeum at Sarmizegetusa, Dacia, in the Lugoj collection; the figures of Mithras and the torchbearers are only partially visible on the weathered surface.
 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
Fragment of a white marble relief (H. 0.114 Br. 0.167 D. 0.015). Coll. Lugoj.Studniczka, 208 No. 12; Kiraly, 33 No. 97; MMM II 305 No. 184.The figures and the torchbearers are still partially visible on the weathered relief. The heads of the figures and of the torchbearers are lost. The inscription in the bottom border is illegible.

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