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In the tauroctonic relief on display at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Mithras slaughters the bull over a rocky background.

This fragmentary relief depicts Mithras killing the bull in the usual manner, remarkably dressed in oriental attire.

This fragmentary scupture of Mithras killing the bull belongs to the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA.

The Niasar Cave, غار نیاسر, was a temple probably devoted to Iranian Mithras that dates back to the early Partian era.

This head was found at the east end of temple of Mithras in London.

The Mithras's head of Walbrook probable belonged to a life-size scene of the god scarifying the bull.

The Mithraeum of Inveresk, south of Musselburgh, East Lothian, is the first found in Scotland, and the earliest securely dated example from Britain.

The London Mithraeum also known as Walbrook Mithraeum has been contextualized and relocated in its original emplacement in 2016.

This scene from the frescoes of the Mitreo di Santa Maria Capua Vetere shows a kneeling, naked man surrounded by two other figures.

This is the first of several fresco scenes depicting the initiation of a new member in a mithraic community, in Capua Vetere.

The person who commanded the sculpture may have been M. Umbilius Criton, documented in the Mitreo della Planta Pedis.

This inscription by a certain Aphrodisius was found under the old city hall of Algiers.

The cenders of Chyndonax were found on an urn with an inscription that reads High Priest of Mithras.

This inscription on an antique funeral urn mentions a certain high priest of Mithras.

The Mackwiller Mithraeum was built in the middle of the 2nd century, during the reign of Antoninus the Pious, on the site of a spring already worshipped by the natives.

This fragment of the head of a young Mithras is one of the finds made during the excavations carried out by Jean-Jacques Hatt at Mackwiller, France, in 1955.

Csaba Szabó is a research fellow of the University of Szeged (Hungary).

Dutch historian, born in 1918 and deceased in 1985. He was a specialist in the history of religions, especially the Eastern cults in the Roman Empire. A prolific writer, best known for his Corpus inscriptionum et monumentorum religionis Mithriacae.

The relief of the Sidon Tauroctony includes the signs of the zodiac and the four seasons, among other common elements.

The Mithraeum was found in one of the rooms of the Horrea built in the years 120 - 125 AD. The installation of the shrine may have taken place in the first half of the third century.