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Tauroctony relief from Sarmizegetusa

Marble tauroctony relief from Sarmizegetusa, Dacia, in the Deva Museum, depicting Mithras killing the bull; one of several reliefs attributed to the Sarmizegetusa sanctuary that were found elsewhere.
Tauroctony relief from Sarmizegetusa

Tauroctony relief from Sarmizegetusa
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The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026

TNMM 1990 ↔ CIMRM 2142

Marble relief (H. 0.30 Br. 0.49 D. 0.045) from Sarmizegetusa. Deva, Museum.

Teglas in Dolgozatok Cluj VI, 1889, 358; idem in AEMO XIII, 1890, 193 No. 5; MMM II 306 No. 186bis; Teglas in Dolgozatok Cluj XIX, 20; Ann. ép. 1912, No. 308. See fig. 580.

Mithras as a bullkiller. The dog, the snake and the raven. In the upper corners the busts of Sol (l) and of Luna (r). In the bottom border an inscription:

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