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Tauroctony from Aquileia

The relief of the Mithraic tauroctony of Aquiliea is currently on display in Vienna.

 
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Mithraic meal from Proložac, Croatia

Mithras and Sol share a sacred meal accompanied by Cautes and Cautopates on a relief found in a cemetery from Croatia.

 
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Tauroctony from Macerata

The Macerata Tauroctony shows Mithra slaying the bull with the usual Pyrigian cap and six rays around his head.

 
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Tauroctony relief of Sarmizegetusa

This relief of Mithras slaying the bull incorporates the scene of the god carrying the bull and its birth from a rock.

 
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Round Tauroctony of Split

The round relief of Mithras killing the bull of Split is surrounded by a circle with Sun, Moon, Saturn and some unusual animals.

 
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Mithras rock-birth of Trier

The relief depicts the birth of Mithras, holding a globe, surrounded by the zodiac.

 
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Tauroctony from Vermaseren's private collection

Maarten Vermaseren acquired this rosso antico marble of Mithras slaying the bull in 1961.

 
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Tauroctony found under the Palazzo Montecitorio (CIMRM 430)

This relief was found under the Palazzo Montecitorio, in Rome, and bought by the Liebighaus at Frankfort.

 
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Tauroctony from the Mithraeum III of Nida

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull from Nida's Mithraeum III was found in two pieces in 1887, destroyed during an air raid on Frankfurt in 1944, and restored in 1986.

 
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Relief of a round platter with food of Ladenburg

The iconography of the platter of Ladenburg might evoke the food consumed during Mithraic banquets.

 
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Consecration for Jupiter and Hercules

This marble relief was found in a Mithraeum in Ptuj.

 
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Two-sided relief of Fiano Romano

The marble shows Mithras slaying the bull, on one side, and Sol and Mithras feasting on a bull skin, on the other.

 
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Tauroctony from Sisak

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull of Sisak includes the zodiac and multiple scenes from the myth of Mithras.

 
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Aion of Oxyrhynchus

According to Pettazzoni Aion in general finds its iconographical origin in Egypt. Mithras must have been worshipped in Egypt in the third century B.C.

 
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Tauroctony from Sî`

In the tauroctony of Jabal al-Druze in Syria, the snake appears to be licking the head of the bull's penis.

 
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Second tautoctony of Sî`

The second tauroctony of Jabal al-Druze seems to have be made by the same sculptor.

 
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Tauroctony from the Cortile del Belvedere

The Tauroctony relief of Mithras killing the bull walled in the Cortile of the Belvedered, Vatican City, was found by Fagan near Ostia.

 
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Tauroctony from Bologna

The relief of Mithras killing the bull of Bologna depicts several scenes of the mithraic myth.

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