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Monumentum

Large tauroctony relief from Sarmizegetusa

Three fragments of a large yellowish marble tauroctony from the Mithraeum at Sarmizegetusa, Dacia, depicting the damaged bull-slaying scene; at approximately 0.94 × 1.31 m one of the larger reliefs from the sanctuary.
Large tauroctony relief from Sarmizegetusa

Large tauroctony relief from Sarmizegetusa
CIMRM

 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026

TNMM 1937 ↔ CIMRM 2084

Three fragments of a yellowish marble relief (H. 0.94 Br. 1.31–1.33 D. 0.31–0.35).

Studniczka, 205f No. 1 and Pl. V; Kiraly, 28f No. 90 and Pl. VIII; MMM II 283 No. 139 and fig. 129. See fig. 560.

Damaged representation of Mithras as a bullkiller. The god wears a girdle and the bull a belt. The tail seems to end in three corn-ears. The bull's head is lost. The god's head and arms are lost, but it seems that he held the dagger upraised. The dog leaps up against the bull; the serpent creeps over the ground; no scorpion and no torchbearers. Behind the main scene there is a tree with branches. Above it a lying lion putting a foreleg on a ram's head. Above the lion the bust of Sol.

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