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Monumentum

Tauroctony with rock-birth above Cautes from Sarmizegetusa

Upper portion of a vaulted marble tauroctony from the Mithraeum at Sarmizegetusa, Dacia, with the bull-slaying and above Cautes a scene of Mithras's rock-birth; Sol and Luna busts appear in the upper corners.
Tauroctony with rock-birth above Cautes from Sarmizegetusa

Tauroctony with rock-birth above Cautes from Sarmizegetusa
CIMRM

 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026

TNMM 1944 ↔ CIMRM 2091

The upper part of a marble relief (H. 0.10 Br. 0.15 D. 0.025). See fig. 564.

The vaulted relief shows Mithras as a bullkiller and the upper parts of Cautes (r) and Cautopates (l). Above Cautes the representation of Mithras' rockbirth. In the upper corners Sol (l) and Luna (r). No traces of the raven.

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