The torchbearers are at work. Expect the occasional flicker while we tend the grotto.
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The mithraic relief of Konjic shows a Tauroctony in one side and a ritual meal in the other.
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.
Franz Cumont considers the bas relief of Osterburken ’the most remarkable of all the monuments of the cult of Mithras found up to now’.
The tauroctonic relief from Dragus includes a naked flying figure that Vermaseren has identified as Phosporus or Lucifer.
This relief of Mithras killing the bull includes various singular features specific to the Danubian area.
In this relief of Mithras as bull slayer, recorded in 1562 in the collection of A. Magarozzi, Cautes and Cautopates have been replaced by trees still bearing the torches.
The marble relief of Mithras killing the bull in Naples bears an inscription that calls the solar god omnipotentis.
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 small magical jasper gem shows Sol in a quadrigra on the recto and Mithras as a bull slayer on the verso.
The altars of the gods of the Sun and Moon found in the Mithraeum of Mundelsheim wear openwork segments that could be lighten from behind.
This stone altar fround in Altbachtal bears an inscription by a certain Martius Martialis.
This marble bust of Sol, found in the Mitreo di San Clemente, had five holes in the head where rays had been fixed.
This relief of Mithras as bull slayer is surrounded by Cautes and Cautopates with their usual torch plus an oval object.
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.
This magnificent candelabrum was found in Rome in 1803, in the Syrian Temple of Janicule.
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 from Apulum, now Alba Iulia, Romania, contains several scenes from the Mithras legend.
