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Altar with Cautes and Cautopates dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras as protector of the Tetrarchy in 3rd-century Carnuntum.
The votive image was donated by a certain Verus for a mithraeum which was probably located in the hinterland of the Limes.
This heliotrope gem, depicting Mithras slaying the bull, dates from the 2nd-3rd century, but was reused as an amulet in the 13th century.
This intaglio portrays Mithra slaying the bull on one side, and a lion with a bee, around seven stars, and inscription, on the other.
This sandsotne head with a Phrygian, found in Fürth in 1730, probably belonged to a torach-bearer.
This relief of Mithras as bull slayer is surrounded by Cautes and Cautopates with their usual torch plus an oval object.
This sculpture, probably of Cautopates, now in the Musei Vaticani, was transformed into Paris.
It is not certain that the marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was found on Capri, in the cave of Matromania, where a Mithraeum could have been established.
Franz Cumont bought this relief of Mithras as a bullkiller from a dealer who claimed to have found it in a vineyard near the church of Saint Pancrace, in Rome.
This relief of Mithras Tauroctonos from Rome bears the inscription of three brothers, two of them lions.
This small relief of Mithras killing the bull was found in 1859 in Turda, in the Cluj region of Romania.
This relief of Mithras killing the bull is unique in the Apulum Mithraic repertoire because of its inscription in Greek.
Several elements, such as the snake, scorpion or dog, are missing from this tauroctony relief of Cluj.
The remains of the mithraic triptic of Tróia, Lusitania, were part of a bigger composition.
This marble of Cautes was found together with his partner Cautopates in Ostia in 1939.
These two mithraic sculptures of Cautes and Cautopates belong to the same collection of Astuto de Noto, made up of mostly Sicilian monuments.
The assumed find-place of the Mithras Tauroctonus of Palermo is uncertain.
This monument bears an inscription by a certain Lucius Aelius Hylas, in which he associates Sol Invictus with Jupiter.
This marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was made by a freedman who dedicated it to his old masters.
This medallion belongs to a specific category of rounded pieces found in other provinces of the Roman world.
