Monumentum
Trapezium tauroctony from Lugoj collection
White marble trapezium-shaped tauroctony from the Mithraeum at Sarmizegetusa, Dacia, in the Lugoj collection, depicting Mithras killing the bull with dog and serpent; the lower portion of the composition is lost.
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
TNMM 1985 ↔ CIMRM 2137
White marble relief in the form of a trapezium (H. 0.227 Br. 0.195 D. 0.02); the l. upper corner is lost. Coll. Lugoj.
Studniczka, 208 No. 8; Kiraly, 31f No. 95; MMM II 304f No. 183.
Mithras as a bullkiller with dog and serpent. The lower part of the crossed legs of the torchbearers; the torch of Cautopates (l); the bust of Luna with crescent in the r. upper corner. In the bottom border an inscription:
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
