Monumentum
Tauroctony with upraised torches from Tirgușor
Sandstone tauroctony relief with pediment from the Mithraeum at Tirgușor, Moesia Inferior, depicting the bull-slaying with two cross-legged torchbearers both holding their torches upraised and Sol and Luna busts in the upper corners; no dog or scorpion.
Tauroctony with upraised torches from TirgușorCIMRM
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
Small relief in sandstone (H. 0.39 Br. 0.28 D. 0.05).See fig. 638.The relief has a pediment. Mithras as a bullkiller; no dog, no scorpion, the raven above Mithras' head. Two cross-legged torchbearers with upraised torches; the r. one holds also a pedum. In the corners the busts of Sol (l) and of Luna (r). The back of the relief is rough.
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