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Monumentum

Bull's shoulder and corn-ear tail from Sarmizegetusa

Three marble parts from the Mithraeum at Sarmizegetusa, Dacia, preserving part of Mithras's shoulders and the bull's tail ending in corn-ears.

The New Mithraeum

27 May 2026

Three parts of a relief. Part of Mithras' shoulders and the bull's tail which ends in corn-ears (Kiraly, 30 No. 91 a–c).

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