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Feast scene with Mithras and Sol from Ladenburg

Bas-relief depicting a naked Sol leaning over his fellow Mithras while raising a drinking horn during the sacred feast.

 
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Two-sided relief of Dieburg

The relief of Dieburg shows Mithras riding a horse as main figure, surrounded by several scenes of the myth.

 
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Tauroctony of Plovdiv

This Mithraic relief of the Danubian type was found in 1940 in the old town of Plovdiv.

 
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Tauroctony from Sisak

This marble relief, found in Sisak, Croatia, shows Mithras killing the bull in a circle of corn ears, gods and some scenes from the Mithras myth.

 
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Tauroctony of Mauls

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull at Mauls in Gallia cisalpina is a paradigmatic example of the so-called Rhine-type Tauroctony.

 
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Feast from Mérida

This scene of a feast from Mérida shows three persons at a table with other people standing beside them, one holding a bull’s head on a plate.

 
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CIMRM 635

Fragment of a marble relief (H. 0.27 Br. 0.38 D. 0.045).

 
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Tauroctony of Absalmos

The relief depict several unusual scenes from Mithras’s myth.

 
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CIMRM 483

Continuation of the frescoes depicting an initiation into the Mithras cult, where two attendants present a repast to Mithras and Sol.

 
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Terra sigillata bowl depicting the Mithraic cult meal from Trier

This terra sigillata was found in 1926 in a grave on the Roman cemetery of St. Matthias, Trier. An eyelet indicates that it could have been hung on a wall.

 
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CIMRM 42

Around the relief with Mithras as a bullkiller, a number of scenes from the Mithras Iegend have been painted in the Mithraeum of Dura Europos.

 
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Two-sided relief from Konjic

The mithraic relief of Konjic shows a Tauroctony in one side and a ritual meal in the other.

 
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Major fresco of the Mitreo Barberini

The votive fresco from the Mithraeum Barberini displays several scenes from Mithras’s myth.

 
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Tauroctony of Strasbourg

These fragments of a monumental relief of Mithras killing the bull from Koenigshoffen were reassembled and are now on display at the Musée Archéologique de Strasbourg.

 
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Tauroctony from the Mithräum von Heddernheim

This relief is so well-known that it has been reproduced in nearly every handbook of archaeology and of history of religions.

 
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Two-sided relief from Rückingen

This remarkable double-sided relief depicts the myth of Mithras and the Tauroctony on one side, and a scene of Mithras the hunter and the banquet of Mithras and the Sol on the other.

 
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Tauroctonic medallion from Caesarea Maritima

The small medallion depicts three scenes from the life of Mithras, including the Tauroctony. It may come from the Danube area.

 
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Tauroctony of Euhemerus from Alba Iulia

Several authors read the name Suaemedus instead of Euhemerus as the author of this mithraic relief from Alba Iulia, Romania.

 
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Triptic of Tróia

The remains of the mithraic triptic of Tróia, Lusitania, were part of a bigger composition.

 
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Tauroctony medallion of Transylvania

This medallion belongs to a specific category of rounded pieces found in other provinces of the Roman world.

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