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Unpublished tauroctony from Turnu Severin

Unpublished tauroctony relief from Turnu Severin, Dacia, with multiple Mithraic scenes including Mithras with Sol, Mithras as archer, and Mithras as bull-slayer.

The New Mithraeum

28 May 2026

According to Tudor, Oltenia 117 there is an unpublished Mithras relief from Turnu-Severin which is now at Bucarest, National Museum.The following scenes seem to be represented:1) Mithras accompanied by Sol.2) Mithras as an archer before the rock.3) Mithras riding the bull.4) Bust of Luna above the grotto's border.

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