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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

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:

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