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Monuments to Mithras tagged with ‘tauroctonia’

Monuments, inscriptions and artefacts related to Mithras and his cult tagged with ‘tauroctonia’.

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Major fresco of the Mitreo Barberini
The votive fresco from the Mithraeum Barberini displays several scenes from Mithras’s myth.
TNMM167 – CIMRM 390
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Tauroctony of Gérman
This very fine relief of Mithras killing the bull was discovered in 2014 in Germán, near Sofia, Bulgaria, and is now housed in the Sofia History Museum.
TNMM795
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Mithraic relief of Baris
The Mithraic relief from Baris, in present-day Turkey, shows what appears to be a proto-version of the Tauroctony, with a winged Mithras surrounded by two Victories.
TNMM284 – CIMRM 25
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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.
TNMM393
Deo invicto Mitr[a]e Ma[rt- or -tern]inus.
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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.
TNMM576 – CIMRM 1359, 1360
[In h(onorem)] d(omus) d(ivinae) d(eo) i(nvicto) M[ithrae] / ... us M.P.D ... / ... us typu[m] ... / ... solo v ...
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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.
TNMM476 – CIMRM 1400
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Tauroctony of Osterburken
Franz Cumont considers the bas relief of Osterburken ’the most remarkable of all the monuments of the cult of Mithras found up to now’.
TNMM176 – CIMRM 1292, 1293
D[eo] S[oli] I[nvicto] M[ithrae] M[er?]catorius Castrensis in suo cons[ituit].
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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.
TNMM198 – CIMRM 1083
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Fresco Tauroctony of Mitreo di Marino
The importance of the Mithraeum of Marino lies in its frescoes, the most significant of which is that of Mithras slaying the bull, surrounded by mythological scenes.
TNMM201
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Tauroctony of Dragus
The tauroctonic relief from Dragus includes a naked flying figure that Vermaseren has identified as Phosporus or Lucifer.
TNMM310 – CIMRM 1919
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Tauroctony relief from Apulum
This relief of Mithras killing the bull includes various singular features specific to the Danubian area.
TNMM797 – CIMRM 1973
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Taurcotony of Secundinus
This remarkable marble statue of Mithras killing the bull from Apulum includes a unique dedication by its donor, featuring the rare term signum, seldom found in Mithraic contexts.
TNMM796 – CIMRM 1947, 1948
------] I(nvicto) M(ithrae) · SIGNVM / ------ Sec]VNDINVS · EX · VOTO · POS(uit).
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Tauroctony gemstone from Ploiești
This gemstone depicting Mithras killing the bull, preserved in the Ploiești Museum, originated from Prahova County or south of the Danube area.
TNMM794
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Tauroctony on display at the Getty Museum
This fragmentary scupture of Mithras killing the bull belongs to the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA.
TNMM538
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Tauroctony of the Collezione Torlonia
This remarkable Greek marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was discovered in 1705 and remained in private collections until it was bought by the Louvre.
TNMM793 – CIMRM 408, 409
Soli invicto / L(ucius) Aur(elius) Severus / cum paremboli(s) / et [h]ypobasi / voto fecit. [Soli i]nvicto / Mithrae [f]ec(it) L(ucius) Aur(elius) Severus Pra[es(idente) L(ucio)] Domitio Mar[cel]li…
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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.
TNMM552 – CIMRM 1137
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Taurcotony of Nesce
The relief of Mithras slaying the bull of Nersae includes several episodes from the exploits of the solar god.
TNMM420 – CIMRM 650, 651
Apronianus rei p(ublicae) ark(arius) sua pecunia fecit.
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Tauroctony found on the Esquiline
This white marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was found on the Esquilino near the Church of Saint Lucy in Selci in Rome.
TNMM146 – CIMRM 368
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Tauroctony of Ottaviano Zeno
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.
TNMM125 – CIMRM 335
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Tauroctony of Naples
The marble relief of Mithras killing the bull in Naples bears an inscription that calls the solar god omnipotentis.
TNMM464 – CIMRM 174, 175
Omnipotenti Deo Mithrae Appius / Claudius Tarronius Dexter v(ir) c(larissimus) dicat.