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Locus

Turnu-Severin (Drobeta-Turnu Severin)

The modern city of Drobeta-Turnu Severin preserves the memory of the ancient Danubian centre of Drobeta.

Locus

Drobeta (Drobeta-Turnu Severin)

Drobeta controlled an important crossing point on the Danube and became one of the major centres of Dacia.

Monumentum

Unpublished tauroctony from Turnu Severin

Unpublished tauroctony relief from Turnu Severin, Dacia, with multiple Mithraic scenes including Mithras with Sol, Mithras as archer, and Mithras as bull-slayer.

Monumentum

Bronze tauroctony statuette from Drubeta

Bronze statuette from Drubeta, Dacia, depicting Mithras placing his left leg on the bull's head — the tauriphoros type — with the bull in a subordinate posture.

Monumentum

Altar fragment from Drubeta

Limestone altar fragment from Drubeta, Dacia, bearing a Mithraic dedication.

Monumentum

Tauroctony upper corner from Drubeta

Left upper corner of a white marble tauroctony relief from the Roman camp at Drubeta, Dacia, found in 1896–99, preserving the grotto border and, outside it, Sol in his quadriga with cracking whip.

Monumentum

Altar of Firmidius Severinus from Geneva

This limestone altar bears an inscription from its donor, Firmidius Severinus, in honour of Mithras after 26 years of service in the Legio VIII Augusta.

Monumentum

Second tauroctony relief from Romula

White marble tauroctony relief fragment from Romula, Dacia, now in Turnu Severin; the composition is partially preserved.

Syndexios

Firmidius Severinus

Firmidius Severinus was a soldier who served in the Legio VIII Augusta for 26 years.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Transdierna

Marble tauroctony relief fragment from Tekija in east Serbia, ancient Transdierna in Moesia Superior, depicting the standard bull-slaying scene.

Monumentum

Rock-birth fragment from Cladova

Small marble tauroctony fragment from Cladova, Moesia Superior, preserving part of Mithras's rock-birth scene.

Monumentum

Tauroctony fragment from Botoșești-Paia

Fragment of a tauroctony relief from Botoșești-Paia near Craiova, Dacia, depicting the standard bull-slaying scene.

Monumentum

Two lost tauroctony monuments from Palazzo Barberini and Palazzo Sanesio, Rome

Two lost Mithraic monuments from Rome: one documented in a 1738 catalogue of the Palazzo Barberini as a tauroctony group with scorpion, snake and dog, and another mentioned by Pirro Ligorio as a Mithras panel in the Palazzo del Duca di Sanseverino.

Monumentum

Fragment of small white marble relief of Mithras tauroktonos from Palazzo Rondinini, Rome

Fragment of a small white marble relief showing Mithras slaying the bull with the dog, serpent and scorpion, formerly walled in the inner court of the Palazzo Rondinini (now Palazzo Sanseverino), Corso No. 518.

Monumentum

Mithras's foot on bull from Romula

Fragment of a relief from Romula, Dacia, preserving the right foot of Mithras placed on a hoof of the bull.

Monumentum

Mitreo di Felicissimo

The Mithraeum Felicissimus has a floor mosaic depicting the seven mithraic grades.

Monumentum

Tauroctony upper right from unknown provenance

Limestone tauroctony relief fragment of unknown provenance, preserving the upper part of the right torchbearer of a bull-slaying scene.

Monumentum

Tauroctony from Sarrebourg

The Tauroctony of Saarbourg (Sarrebourg, ancient Pons Sarravi), France, contains most of Mithras deeds known in a single relief.

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