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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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Mithraic vignettes from Besigheim

These two fragments of a sandstone relief were walled into a house on the market square in Besigheim.

 
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Petrogeny of Florence

The sculpture of the birth of Mithras in Florence included the head of Oceanus.

 
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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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Votive plaque of Stockstadt

This plaque was found in Mithraeum I at Stockstadt broken into pieces inserted between the blocks of the socle of the cult relief, in the manner of a votive deposit.

 
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CIMRM 1669

Sandstone petrogenesis from Petronell-Carnuntum (Lower Austria), depicting Mithras emerging from the rock, preserved from the knees upwards.

 
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Tauroctony of the Loggia Scoperta

Currently in the Musei Vaticani, this Tauroctony includes Mithras’s birth restored as Venus anaduomene.

 
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CIMRM 1410

Conglomerate statue of the birth of Mithras, found in a burnt layer, showing the god nude emerging from the rock with raised hands and a snake.

 
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CIMRM 599

Mithras being born from the rock (petrogenia), acquired in Rome and formerly kept in Berlin.

 
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Denarius depicting Mithras rock-birth of St. Albans

The mithraic denarius of St. Albans dates from the 2nd century.

 
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Roman Marble Relief Panel with Birth of Mithras

Mithras emerging from the rock with torch and dagger beside a reclining Oceanus or Saturn.

 
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Relief of Aion-Phanes

The Aion / Phanes relief, currently on display in the Gallerie Estensi, Moneda, is associated with two Eastern mysteric religions: Mithraism and Orphism.

 
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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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Tauroctony of Absalmos

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

 
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Petrogeny with hand on head from Nida

This sculpture of Mithras being born from a rock is unique in the position of the hands, one on his head, the other on the rock.

 
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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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Petrogeny from Aquileia

This fragment of a sculpture depicting the birth of Mithras from a rock, intertwined with a chaotic mass of serpent coils, was discovered in Aquileia, Italy.

 
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Mithraic vase of Mühltal

The Mühltal Mithraic crater was discovered among the artefacts of a mithraeum found in Pfaffenhoffen am Inn, Bavaria.

 
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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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