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Tauroctony with Mithras's head from Sarmizegetusa

Three greyish marble tauroctony fragments from the Mithraeum at Sarmizegetusa, Dacia, preserving the head of Mithras and the bull and parts of the subsidiary scenes.
Tauroctony with Mithras's head from Sarmizegetusa

Tauroctony with Mithras's head from Sarmizegetusa
CIMRM

 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026

TNMM 1931 ↔ CIMRM 2078

Three fragments of a greyish marble relief (H. 0.22 Br. 0.31 D. 0.05–0.02).

Studniczka, 209 No. 18; Kiraly, 33f No. 98 and Pl. XIII, 2; MMM II 287 No. 152. See fig. 558.

The representation of Mithras as a bullkiller. Preserved: the head of Mithras and part of his cloak; the bull's tail which ends in two corn-ears; Cautopates with a torch downwards in each hand. Traces of red colour on the cloak of the torchbearer, on the sheath of Mithras, on the border of the relief, near the ends of the torches of Cautopates.

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