Monumentum
Tauroctony relief with Mithras grasping the bull's horns from Rome
Tauroctony relief formerly in the house of the Alterii near S. Marco in Rome, now of unknown whereabouts, described by Gruterus as showing Mithras pressing both knees onto the bull and grasping its horns with the knife in the shoulder, with scorpion, serpent, raven, Sol and Luna.
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
A relief, formerly "in aedibus Alteriorum ad S. Marcum".Gruterus, Inscr. I, XXXIV, 8; Zoega, Abh., 150 No. 28; MMM II 235 No. 72."Mithra est in rupe sed extantiori opere taurum cui utroque genu innititur quemque cornibus tenet, cultro in scapula sinistra figens. Scorpius testiculos tauri apprehendit, animali cani non absimile adsilit, serpens subiacet, tauri cauda in aristas desinit. Ad humeros ipsius dei corvus in rupe assidet. A dextra Sol iuvenili facie, et sub eo puer braccatus mitratusque facem erigit. A sinistra Luna additis supra frontem cornibus, sub qua item puer alteri similis facem demissam tenet…
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