Monuments to Mithras tagged with ‘tauroctonia’

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.

TNMM784 – CIMRM 1475

The Tauroctony found in Velletri, Rome, bears an inscription from its owner and donor.

TNMM307 – CIMRM 208, 209

This fine Roman marble slab of the killing bull of Mithras belongs to a private owner, most recently from Los Angeles, USA.

TNMM774

This sculpture of Mithras killing the bull, which belongs to the Louvre Museum, is currently on display in Varsovia.

TNMM670 – CIMRM 587

On one of the capitals of the cathedral of Santa Maria Nuova in Monreale, Sicily, an unusual turbaned bull-slaying Mithras has been recorded.

TNMM764

Mithras slaying the bull appears as the sign of Capricorn in a zodiacal sequence on the Pórtico del Cordero of the Abbey de Santo Domingo de Silos, Burgos, Spain.

TNMM763

What appears to be a representation of Mithras killing the bull appears in the 12th century frescoes of the Basilica dei Santi Quattro Coronati in Rome.

TNMM762

The votive image was donated by a certain Verus for a mithraeum which was probably located in the hinterland of the Limes.

TNMM315 – CIMRM 1423, 1424

This heliotrope gem, depicting Mithras slaying the bull, dates from the 2nd-3rd century, but was reused as an amulet in the 13th century.

TNMM550

This small magical jasper gem shows Sol in a quadrigra on the recto and Mithras as a bull slayer on the verso.

TNMM769 – CIMRM 2361

In this relief found in the Sárkeszi Mithraeum, Cautes and Cautopates hold an Amazon shield.

TNMM767

The relief of Mithras killing the bull, found near Zvornik in Bosnia and Herzegovina, features some variations on the usual scene.

TNMM765

Relief of Mithras killing the bull with an inscription from a certain Aurelius Macer who dedicates it to Sol Invictus Mithras.

TNMM1383

Large intaglio engraved with Mithras as bull slayer surrounded by a peculiar version of Cautes and Cautopates and other celestial deities.

TNMM755

This intaglio portrays Mithra slaying the bull on one side, and a lion with a bee, around seven stars, and inscription, on the other.

TNMM546 – CIMRM 2354

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

TNMM141

This marble relief depicting Mithras as a bull slayer was found in the back room of the Mithraeum of the Circus Maximus.

TNMM742 – CIMRM 437

This elliptical terracotta fragment from Ostia depicts Mithras as a bullkiller.

TNMM737 – CIMRM 316

This relief of Mithras as bull slayer is surrounded by Cautes and Cautopates with their usual torch plus an oval object.

TNMM224 – CIMRM 71

This small white marble relief of Mithras as a bullkiller was found in the Botanical Gardens of Vienna in 1950.

TNMM724 – CIMRM 1650