Monumentum
Rock-birth fragment from Cladova
Small marble tauroctony fragment from Cladova, Moesia Superior, preserving part of Mithras's rock-birth scene.
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
TNMM 2457 ↔ CIMRM 2215
Fragment of a marble relief (H. 0.07 Br. 0.05) found at Cladova. Turnu Severin, Museum "Porțile de Fier."
See fig. 611. I am very grateful to the Director L. Roșu for information and for the photograph of this unpublished relief.
Part of the representation of Mithras' rockbirth.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae