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.
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
TNMM 2438 ↔ CIMRM 2160
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.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
