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Monumentum

Tauroctony from Coll. Géza Kuun from Sarmizegetusa

Bluish marble tauroctony fragment from the Mithraeum at Sarmizegetusa, Dacia, formerly in the collection of Count Géza Kuun at Mintia, preserving Mithras killing the bull.
 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026

TNMM 1988 ↔ CIMRM 2140

Fragment of a bluish marble relief (H. 0.105 Br. 0.205 D. 0.04). Probably from the same Mithraeum. In 1898 it was in the Coll. of Count Géza Kuun at Mintia (Maros Nemeti).

Kiraly, 36 No. 101 and Pl. XII, 1; MMM II 305 No. 185 and fig. 162.

Mithras as a bullkiller. The r. part is preserved with the bull's head and Mithras' hands. Before it standing Cautes; head, legs and torch are broken off.

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