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Monumentum

Tauroctony fragment from Micia

Limestone tauroctony relief fragment from Mintia-Vețel, ancient Micia in Dacia, now lost, preserving the left corner with Cautopates with torch downward and a partially legible inscription below.
 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026

TNMM 2426 ↔ CIMRM 2020

Fragment of a relief from Mintia-Vețel (Veczel). Formerly at Deva, now lost.

Ms. of Fodor, I Pl. 25; Neigebaur, Dac., 44; MMM II 307 No. 189.

The l. corner of a representation of Mithras as a bullkiller. Cautopates (l) with the torch downwards. Underneath an inscription:

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