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Monumentum

Open-work tauroctony from Apulum

Fragment of an open-work marble tauroctony from the Mithraeum at Apulum, Dacia, preserving Mithras's head with only the snout of the bull; the relief is framed by a border.

Monumentum

Rock-birth statue from Mureș Port

Dark sandstone statue from Mureș Port, Dacia, depicting Mithras's rock-birth with the rock encircled by a serpent; the statue's attribution to Mureș Port rather than Apulum is uncertain.

Monumentum

Altar with Sol pediment from Mureș Port

Limestone altar from Partoș or Mureș Port, Dacia, found in 1852, with a triangular pediment containing the head of Sol in a twelve-rayed crown and nimbus, flanked by a patera on the right and a jug on the left.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief fragment from Turda castrum

Marble relief fragment found in the Turda castrum in 1954, Dacia, preserving the bust of Sol in the upper left corner and Mithras grasping the bull; remnants of a wreath are visible in the upper right.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief with corn-ear tail from Turda

Fragment of a white marble tauroctony relief from Turda, ancient Potaissa in Dacia, depicting the bull-slaying with the bull's tail ending in three corn-ears, the dog, serpent, and scorpion.

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Tauroctony relief with inscription from Turda

Lost white marble tauroctony relief from Turda, ancient Potaissa in Dacia, depicting the bull-slaying with dog, serpent, and scorpion; the inscription in the lower border named the dedicant Iulius Iulianus.

Monumentum

Possible Mithraeum at Golubić

Foundations of a rectangular building (10 × 6 m) and a front-stone fragment at Golubić near Bihać, Dalmatia, suggesting the existence of a Mithraic sanctuary.

Monumentum

Altar of Fortunatus for Pamphilus from Salona

Altar from Salona, Dalmatia, with a bust of Sol in radiate crown in the lower portion, dedicated to Deo invicto for the welfare and safety of Pamphilus, imperial dispensator, by his arkarius Fortunatus.

Monumentum

Bordered tauroctony relief from Salona

Right upper corner of a white marble bordered tauroctony relief from Salona or its surroundings, Dalmatia, with framing elements and part of the bull-slaying iconography.

Monumentum

Building inscription fragment from Salona

Fragmentary inscription from Salona, Dalmatia, preserving only the phrase impendio suo — probably recording a building act.

Monumentum

Tauroctony fragment from Salona

Limestone tauroctony relief fragment from Salona, Dalmatia, preserving the foremost part of the bull, the dog, the serpent, and part of Mithras's dagger hand.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief with corn-ear tail from Petronell

Marble tauroctony relief from Petronell, ancient Carnuntum in Pannonia Superior, with the bull's tail ending in corn-ears; no scorpion is depicted, and Cautes holds the upraised torch.

Monumentum

Altar of Sacellus to Deo Soli invicto from Carnuntum

Small sandstone altar from Carnuntum, Pannonia Superior, dedicated to Deo Soli invicto by a dedicant whose name reads Sacellus; found in the Burgfeld in 1878.

Monumentum

Altar with Mithraic symbols from Carnuntum

Sandstone altar from Carnuntum, Pannonia Superior, found in a flue of Building VII in 1899, decorated on the left with a raven, corn-ear, and serpent stacked vertically and on the right with a lying lion; dedicated to Invicto deo Mithrae.

Monumentum

Minor finds from Mithraeum I, Carnuntum

Minor finds from Mithraeum I at Carnuntum, Pannonia Superior, comprising legionary brick stamps, burnt coal and wood, ash with ox, sheep, and goat bones, and fragments of serpent-vases; the coin evidence points to a terminus ante quem in the early third century…

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief with raven on cloak from Stix-Neusiedl

White marble tauroctony relief from Stix-Neusiedl, Pannonia Superior, depicting Mithras killing the bull with the raven perched on the rim of the god's flying cloak — an unusual detail placing the raven on the cloak rather than on the grotto border…

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief with Cautopates from Mithraeum III, Ptuj

Marble tauroctony relief from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving Mithras killing the bull — head and most of the flying cloak lost — flanked by Cautopates holding the torch downward.

Monumentum

Tauroctony with three-headed serpent from Mithraeum III, Ptuj

Marble tauroctony relief fragment from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, notable for a three-headed serpent and a dog attempting to lick the blood; the bull's tail ends in three corn-ears.

Monumentum

Sol and torchbearer corner with horizontal border from Mithraeum II, Ptuj

Left upper corner of a marble relief from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, with the dressed bust of Sol in radiate crown above a horizontal rim, beneath which the head of a torchbearer, probably Cautopates.

Monumentum

Terracotta tauroctony statuette from Mithraeum II, Ptuj

Terracotta statuette from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, depicting Mithras as bull-slayer with yellow-painted garments; the piece was not recovered during the author's visit and may be lost.

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