Monumentum
Tauroctony from the Loggia Scoperta
Currently in the Musei Vaticani, this Tauroctony includes Mithras’s birth restored as Venus anaduomene.
Tauroctonia de la 'Loggia Scoperta'
Arachne
Tauroctonia de la 'Loggia Scoperta'
The New Mithraeum / Andreu Abuín (CC BY-SA)
CIMRM 556
Vermaseren's Corpus
The New Mithraeum
20 Jan 2011
Updated on Jan 2026
White marble relief (H. about 0.75 Br. about 0.50). Vatican Musea, Loggia Scoperta, No. 18.
In a cave, the representation of Mithras, slaying the bull, which wears a broad belt round its body. The raven is perched on the god’s flying cloak; the dog, the serpent and the scorpion on the usual places. Cautes stands before the bull; Cautopates on the other side, grasping with his left the bull’s tail. Both are not cross- legged. Above the latter Mithras, carrying the bull. Above the bull’s head, Mithras’ rock-birth (restored as Venus anaduomene).
In the small akroteria the busts of Sol (l) and Luna (r)…
In a cave, the representation of Mithras, slaying the bull, which wears a broad belt round its body. The raven is perched on the god’s flying cloak; the dog, the serpent and the scorpion on the usual places. Cautes stands before the bull; Cautopates on the other side, grasping with his left the bull’s tail. Both are not cross- legged. Above the latter Mithras, carrying the bull. Above the bull’s head, Mithras’ rock-birth (restored as Venus anaduomene).
In the small akroteria the busts of Sol (l) and Luna (r)…
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