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Monumentum

Tauroctony relief of uncertain Dacian origin

Marble tauroctony relief of uncertain but probably Apulum/Dacian provenance, depicting Mithras tauroktonos with raven, serpent, scorpion, and dog.
Tauroctony relief of uncertain Dacian originCIMRM
 
The New Mithraeum
29 May 2026
Marble relief (H. 0.40 Br. 0.345 D. 0.03). Find-spot unknown (from Apulum?). Cluj, Museum, Inv. No. 2587. Formerly in the Coll. Kamény.Neigebaur, Dac., 208; Lajard, Cyprès, Pl. XV; MMM II 314 No. 196 and fig. 172. See fig. 605.Mithras tauroktonus. Raven, serpent, scorpion, dog. Above Mithras' head a lion's head. Cautopates (l) holds a finger of his l.h. at his mouth; the foremost part of the l. arm of Cautes (r) is not represented. Above their heads the upper parts of a cypress. The busts of Luna (l) and of Sol (r). In the bottom border an inscription (L.H. 0.018) the greater part of which has been erased.

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