Monumentum
Intaglio of Mithras Tauroctonus at the Walters Art Museum
This ancient carnelian intaglio mounted in gold depicts Mithras slaying the bull surrounded by his companions Cautes and Cautopates.
Intaglio of a Mithraic Sacrifice
The Walters Art Museum
Intaglio of a Mithraic Sacrifice
The Walters Art Museum
The New Mithraeum
30 Oct 2022
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Mithras to l. slaying the bull in a grotto. The dog and the serpent. On either side a torchbearer sitting on a rocky stone; they hold their l. hands under their chins. The busts of Sol and of Luna.Evans Collection Catalogue 1938,37 No. 216; Dorothy K. Hill in Journal of the Walters Arts Gallery VII-VIII, 1944-5,76. I am obliged to Mrs. Dorothy K. Hill to reproduce fig. 661.In front of the cosmic cave, Mithras, flanked by his two torchbearers, Cautes and Cautopates, sacrifices the primeval bull. He is
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