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Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from unknown provenance

White marble tauroctony relief fragment of unknown provenance, preserving the foremost part of the bull and part of Mithras as bull-slayer.
 
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29 May 2026

TNMM 2565 ↔ CIMRM 2193

Fragment of a white marble relief (H. 0.42 Br. 0.33 D. 0.13). Formerly Coll. Mauros (No. 89), now in the stores of the Museum at Bucarest, L. 986bis.

MMM II 273 No. 127; Tocilescu, Mon. ep. sculpt., 525ff No. 13 and fig. 12.

Mithras as a bullkiller. Only the foremost part of the bull and traces of Mithras' knee and dagger. The bull wears a belt. The dog and the serpent with their heads towards the wound. Cautes (r) standing on a base not cross-legged before the bull with upraised torch.

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