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Tauroctony with water miracle from Dacia

Marble tauroctony relief fragment from Dacia, preserved in Bucharest, with only Mithras's head and part of his flying cloak visible; above this a water-miracle scene and above that the bull in a small boat.
Tauroctony with water miracle from Dacia

Tauroctony with water miracle from Dacia
CIMRM

 
The New Mithraeum
29 May 2026

TNMM 2561 ↔ CIMRM 2189

Fragment of a marble relief, Bucarest, Municipal Museum. See fig. 600.

Mithras as a bullkiller. Only the god's head and part of his flying cloak. Above it a person in Oriental dress kneeling before a rock (water-miracle). Above him the bull in a small boat.

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