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Monumentum

Tauroctony of Alba Iulia with collared dog
This relief of Mithras killing the bull from Apulum, now Alba Iulia, Romania, contains several scenes from the Mithras legend.
TNMM664 – CIMRM 1972
Locus

Potaissa
Potaissa was a castra in the Roman province of Dacia, located in today's Turda, Romania.
Syndexios

Aelius Maximus
Aelius Maximus identifies himself as a soldier of the Legio V Macedonica on a relief found in ancient Potaissa.
Monumentum

Tauroctony from Cluj
Several elements, such as the snake, scorpion or dog, are missing from this tauroctony relief of Cluj.
TNMM280 – CIMRM 2025
Locus

Napoca
Napoca was a Roman castra in the province of Dacia.
Syndexios

Chrestion
Freedman from Greek-speaking origin who dedicated an altar to the invincible Mythra.
Syndexios

Dioscorus
Dioscorus is a freedman from the Greek-speaking part of the Empire who dedicated an altar to the invincible Mythra.
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Euhemerus from Alba Iulia
Several authors read the name Suaemedus instead of Euhemerus as the author of this mithraic relief from Alba Iulia, Romania.
TNMM663 – CIMRM 1975, 1976
Deo invicto Mithr(a)e / Euhemerus ex voto / posuit.
Syndexios

Euhemerus
Euhemerus was a Greek or Greco-Oriental man of modest status.
Monumentum

Column to Nabarze of Protas
This column found in the Mithraeum of Sarmizegetusa bears an inscription to Nabarze instead of Mithras.
TNMM631 – CIMRM 2028, 2029
Nabarze / deo / pro sal(ute) Ampliati / Aug(usti) n(ostri) disp(ensatoris) et / sua suorumq(ue) / omnium / Protas vikar(ius) / eius.
Monumentum

Altar of Nummius Amandus from Alba Iulia
This altar dedicated to the Invincible Sol Mithra was found in 1878 in a cemetery in Alba Iulia.
TNMM643 – CIMRM 1951
Soli i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / C(aius) Nummius / Amandus / qui et / templum.
Syndexios

Gaius Nummius Amandus
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Aelius Hylas from Doştat
This monument bears an inscription by a certain Lucius Aelius Hylas, in which he associates Sol Invictus with Jupiter.
TNMM642 – CIMRM 2006, 2007
Io(vi) S(oli) invi(cto) / deo genitori / r(upe) n(ato). L. Aeli(us) Hylas (vicesimarius) l(ibertus) pr(o) sa(lute) et Horientis (sic) fil(ii) sui et Apuleia(e) eius signum numinis cum absidata / ex v…
Syndexios

Lucius Aelius Hylas
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Euthices from Apulum
This marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was made by a freedman who dedicated it to his old masters.
TNMM638 – CIMRM 1935, 1936
D(eo) S(oli) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / [pro salute et incolumi]tate M. Aurelii Timothei et Aur(elii) Maximii / [votum nuncupavit sol]vitq(ue) Euthices eorum l[ib(ertus)].
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Ulpius Linus from Apulum
This relief of Mithras killing the bull was dedicated by the bearer of the imperial standard of Legio XIII Gemina, Marcus Ulpius Linus.
TNMM636 – CIMRM 1955
[-?-] M. Ulp(ius) Linus imag(inifer) l(egionis) XIII G(eminae).
Syndexios

Euthices
Freedman, he offered a relief of Mithras as a bull killer for the well-being of his two former masters in Apulum.
Syndexios

Marcus Ulpius Linus
Bearer of the imperial standard of Legio XIII Gemina.
Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Alba Iulia
This marble relief from Alba Iulia contains numerous scenes from the myth of Mithras.
TNMM480 – CIMRM 1958, 1959
D(eo) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) T(itus) Aur(elius) F(abia) (tribu) Marcus vet(eranus) leg(ionis) XIII g(eminae).
Locus

Apulum
Apulum, now within Alba Iulia, was a Roman settlement first mentioned by the mathematician, astrologer and geographer Ptolemy. Its name comes from the Dacian Apoulon.