Tauroctony gemstone from Ploiești

In the collection of engraved gemstones at the County Museum of History and Archaeology, Prahova, in Ploiești, there is this gemstone depicting the god Mithras. The iconographic style aligns with the well-known variant, illustrating the Mithraic scene of the bull sacrifice. To our knowledge, this is the only gemstone representation of Mithras from Dacia, though the possibility remains that it may have originated from south of the Danube. In the absence of contextual details regarding its discovery, the gemstone with the Mithras depiction can be dated to between the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD.
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