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Monumentum

Primitive tauroctony relief from Micia

Primitive marble tauroctony relief from the Museum at Cluj, Dacia, attributed to Micia but with uncertain provenance; a rough representation of Mithras killing the bull without Phrygian cap.
 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
According to AJA XXI, 1917, 220f and AA 1925, 298. A. Buday in Dolgozatok az Erdélyi Nemzeti Muzeum 1916, 27ff published a series of reliefs in the Museum at Cluj. There is a primitive representation of Mithras as a bullkiller, but it is uncertain which relief is meant.

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