Second tauroctony relief from Romula

TNMM 2001 ↔ CIMRM 2172

Fragment of a white marble relief (H. 0.238 Br. 0.19), found at Romula. At first in the Coll. Tzupagu; from 1905 in the Coll. Maria Istrati-Capsa; now Turnu-Severin, Museum Portile de Fier (Inv. No. 131/S).

Istrati in Literatura și Arta Românas (Nos. 1–3), 1908, fig. 7; Câteva, 48 fig. 1; Tudor in Progresul Social 1933, 411 fig. 2; Arh. Olt. XII, 1933, 221ff No. 1 and fig. 1; Oltenia, 394 No. 80. See fig. 592.

Mithras as a bullkiller. The god's head, his r. foot and part of his cloak are lost. The dog leaps up against the bull; the serpent creeps over the ground; no scorpion; Cautes not cross-legged standing on a base with upraised torch. In the upper border the bust of Luna in crescent. Beside her a row of altars two of which are still extant. In the bottom border an inscription: