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Monumentum

Third tauroctony relief from Slăveni-Romanați

Reddish-white marble tauroctony relief from Slăveni-Romanați, Dacia, depicting the standard bull-slaying with the full iconographic programme.
Third tauroctony relief from Slăveni-Romanați

Third tauroctony relief from Slăveni-Romanați
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The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026

TNMM 2445 ↔ CIMRM 2168

Relief in reddish-white marble (H. 0.39 Br. 0.36 D. 0.045). Bucarest, Magazines of the National Museum (Coll. C. Bolliac), L. 713.

Lajard, Intr., Pl. XCIX, 4; MMM II 280 No. 137c and fig. 123; Tudor in Dacia IX–X, 1941–1944, 408f No. 1 and fig. 1; LeRoy Campbell in Berytus XI, 1954, 50 No. 192. See fig. 589.

Mithras as a bullkiller in a grotto. On the rocky border are the busts of Sol (l) and of Luna (r). The god's r. knee is represented before the body of the bull. The raven is perched on Mithras' cloak; the dog and the serpent hold their heads towards the wound; no scorpion. The torchbearers Cautes (r) and Cautopates (l) hold a pedum or a torch in one hand and they stretch out their other hands towards the bull. Near Mithras' head is a nail-hole.

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