Column to Nabarze of Protas

Capital with a simple leaf wreath, with a figure of a bull above the inscription, a raven on the sides, and a bull's head at the back. Above the capital there is a cubic top with garland and rosettes on the front, above a raven and the bull's head triangular gable with leaf rosette, above the other raven an arched field with rosette. Inscription on the column shaft.



The name Nabarze is found at Sarmizegetusa in Dacia. In the mithraeum excavated in 1881-1883, a marble [sic] column decorated with a running bull, a bull's head and a bird with a leaf in its beak bears a dedication to the

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