Monumentum
Tauroctony lower right from Oltenia
Right lower corner of a marble tauroctony relief from Oltenia, Dacia, preserving the lower portion of Mithras killing the bull.
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
TNMM 2558 ↔ CIMRM 2181
R. bottom corner of a marble relief (H. 0.165 Br. 0.13 D. 0.02). Bucarest, National Museum (Coll. C. Bolliac Inv. No. 16 and LXXIX), Inv. No. L 1453.
Tudor in Dacia IX–X, 1941–1944, 419 No. 21 and fig. 12, 1. See fig. 594.
Mithras as a bullkiller of which only the lower part is preserved. The serpent creeps over the ground. A torchbearer is cross-legged; the head and the breast are lost. Underneath the main scene from l. to r.:
1) Lost. Part of a grotto.
2) Mithras and Sol at the repast in a grotto.
3) Mithras and Sol in the one-horse chariot.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae