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Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Oltenia

Limestone tauroctony relief from Oltenia, Dacia, of unknown exact provenance, depicting the standard bull-slaying with the full iconographic programme.
Tauroctony relief from OlteniaCIMRM
 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
Relief in limestone (H. 0.315 Br. 0.39–0.34 D. 0.07). Bucarest, National Museum (Coll. C. Bolliac), Inv. No. 678.The find-spot of this monument and the following is unknown. Cezar Bolliac travelled to Moldavia, Walachya, Oltenia and Dobroudja several times between 1845–1876. In his notes about Dobroudja these monuments are not mentioned; the two former countries are poor in archaeological material, so that Tudor (p. 408) supposes the monuments to originate from Oltenia. According to Cumont they certainly come from Walachya.MMM II 274 No. 131; Tudor in Dacia IX–X, 1941–1944, 418 No. 20 and fig…

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