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Tauroctony relief from Slăveni-Romanați

Two white marble tauroctony relief fragments from Slăveni-Romanați, Dacia, depicting the standard bull-slaying scene.
 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
Two fragments of a white marble relief. Bucarest, National Museum (Coll. Ghica).Lajard, Mém. Transs., 178ff and Pl. VI; Intr., Pl. XCVII, 1 who cites Blaremberg in Curierul Rumânese VIII, 22 and 27, 1837 Nos. 46–47, 181ff which for me is inaccessible; MMM II 278f No. 137a and fig. 121; LeRoy Campbell in Berytus XI, 1954, 51 No. 363.Mithras as a bullkiller with dog (head lost), serpent and scorpion. Only the lower part of the relief is preserved. Before the bull the crossed legs of Cautes standing on a krater; of Cautopates (l) also only the crossed legs and part of his torch are preserved…

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