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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.
Tauroctony lower right from OlteniaCIMRM
 
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.

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