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Tauroctony with Cautes from Sarmizegetusa

Foremost part of a white marble tauroctony from the Mithraeum at Sarmizegetusa, Dacia, showing the badly weathered bull-slaying with cross-legged Cautes raising the torch with both hands.
 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
Foremost part of a white marble relief (H. 0.23 Br. 0.205 D. 0.025). See fig. 563.The badly weathered relief shows Mithras as a bullkiller with the dog and the serpent. Before him cross-legged Cautes who raises up a torch with both hands.

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