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Monumentum

Bronze tauroctony statuette from Drubeta

Bronze statuette from Drubeta, Dacia, depicting Mithras placing his left leg on the bull's head — the tauriphoros type — with the bull in a subordinate posture.

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28 May 2026

Bronze statuette (H. 0.145) from Drubeta. No longer at Turnu Severin, Museum Porțile de Fier.Bărcăcilă, Drubeta, 33 and fig. 38; Arh. Olt., 1934 No. 2 and figs. 46 a, b.; Tudor in Serta Kazaroviana, 1950, 160.Mithras holds his l. leg on the bull's head and rests on his r. foot. He holds a dagger (broken off) in his upraised r.h. and stretches out his l. arm. His l.h. is lost.

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