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Tauroctony relief from Verona

A white marble tauroctony relief of unknown provenance, now preserved in the Lapidary Museum of Verona, depicting the standard Mithraic bull-slaying scene.

 
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Funerary inscription of Publius Anthius Logus from Montpellier

A funerary cippus, dated to the 2nd–3rd century, commemorating Publius Anthius Logus, pater sacrorum, and erected by Cornelia, daughter of Lucius, found at Sextantio near modern Montpellier in Narbonensis.

 
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Cautopates relief from Heddernheim

Fragment of a sandstone relief from Nida-Heddernheim depicting the torchbearer Cautopates.

 
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Cautes from Forum of Caesar

Upper fragment of a marble relief depicting Cautes, discovered in the Forum of Caesar in Rome.

 
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Marble base from Rome by Ulpius Paulus

Small marble base, found in one of the private houses along the Via Sacra nearly opposite to the Basilica of Constantine, Rome.

 
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Gold coin with Mithras and Mao

A gold coin depicting a bearded god with a crescent facing another god with a nimbus and a radiate crown, identified as Mithras by Vermaseren.

 
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Forged bronze Mithraic statuette

Bronze statuette bearing a Mithraic inscription, subsequently demonstrated by Anna Sadurska to be a modern forgery.

 
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Bronze statuette in Oriental dress in the Walters Art Gallery

Small bronze statuette in Oriental dress from the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, depicting a figure no longer considered a Mithraic object.

 
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Bronze torchbearer from the Cabinet des Médailles

Small bronze torchbearer statuette in Oriental dress from the Cabinet des Médailles, with restored feet and a missing torch-bearing arm.

 
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Bronze torchbearer from the Cabinet des Médailles

Bronze torchbearer statuette in a short tunic from the Cabinet des Médailles, holding an upraised torch.

 
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Bronze torchbearers from the Cabinet des Médailles

Pair of bronze torchbearer statuettes in Oriental dress from the Cabinet des Médailles, originally belonging to the same sculptural group.

 
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Black jasper tauroctony from the Seyrig collection

Black jasper gem from the Seyrig collection, depicting Mithras radiate slaying the bull, with the god grasping the muzzle with the left hand and driving a knife into the animal's neck with the right.

 
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Chalcedony tauroctony gem from Paris

Fragment of yellowish chalcedony in the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris, formerly in the Millingen collection, depicting the standard tauroctony.

 
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Rock-crystal tauroctony gem from Paris

Rock-crystal gem in the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris, depicting Mithras as bull-slayer with the standard iconographic programme.

 
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Tauroctony carnelian from Epidaurum

White carnelian with red stripes, reportedly acquired at Epidaurum, depicting what may be Mithras as bull-slayer before a burning altar surmounted by a crescent and a nine-rayed star.

 
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Tauroctony jasper gem in the Cairo Museum

Oval jasper gem in the Cairo Museum depicting Mithras slaying the bull with Sol, Luna, a leontocephalic figure and seven stars.

 
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Besa gem

Gem formerly published as Mithraic by Cumont but subsequently identified as depicting the Egyptian deity Besa.

 
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Golden magical ring from the Castellani Collection

Gold ring amulet formerly in the Schlumberger Collection, published as Mithraic by Cumont and later identified as a healing charm against colic and diseases of the uterus.

 
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Tauroctony jasper gem formerly in the Museo Borgiano

Yellow jasper fragment of unknown provenance, formerly in the Museo Borgiano, with a tauroctony on the obverse and a Mithraic figure on the reverse.

 
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Tauroctony on yellow carnelian from Udine

Yellow lenticular carnelian gem probably from Aquileia, now in Udine, depicting a Mithraic scene nearly identical to the Florence jasper.

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