Monumentum
Tauroctony relief from Orșova
White marble tauroctony relief from Orșova, ancient Dierna in Dacia, depicting the standard bull-slaying with the torchbearers and subsidiary scenes.
Tauroctony relief from OrșovaCIMRM
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
TNMM 2432 ↔ CIMRM 2154
White marble relief (H. 0.20 Br. 0.22 D. 0.03) found at Orșova. From the Coll. Ormos to the Museum at Timișoara (= Temesvár).
Travaux des médecins et naturalistes hongrois. Réunion d'Herculesbad 1872, Budapest 1873, 161; Studniczka in AEMO VII 1883 No. 70; MMM II 278 No. 136. See fig. 585.
Mithras as a bullkiller with dog, serpent and scorpion. The two torchbearers and in the upper corners the busts of Sol (l) and of Luna (r).
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
