Monuments to Mithras tagged with ‘tauroctonia’

This relief of Mithras as a bullkiller, probably found in Rome, has been part of the Palazzo Mattei collection since at least the end of the 18th century.

TNMM721 – CIMRM 534

This relief of Mithras killing the bull is on display at the Royal Ontario Museum.

TNMM719 – CIMRM 606

Even if only a few fragments remain, it is very likely that the main niche of the Mitreo di Santa Prisca contained the usual representation of Mithras killing the bull.

TNMM717 – CIMRM 479

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.

TNMM715 – CIMRM 172

This unusual mural depicting Mithras killing the bull was found near the Colosseum in 1668.

TNMM714 – CIMRM 337

This relief of Mithras tauroctonus and other finds were discovered in 1845 in Ruše, where a Mithraeum probably existed.

TNMM710 – CIMRM 1447, 1448

This relief of Mithras killing the bull found in Gimmeldingen, Germany, lacks the usual raven.

TNMM693 – CIMRM 1314

This primitive relief of Mithras as a bullkiller is signed by a certain Valerius Marcelianus.

TNMM709 – CIMRM 1468, 1469

The provenance of this fragment of a white marble relief depicting Mithras as a bullkiller is unknown.

TNMM704 – CIMRM 13

This damage relief of Mithras killing the bull was found walled into a house near Split, Croatia.

TNMM702 – CIMRM 1859

This relief of Mithras as a bullkiller found at Vratnitsa, near Lisicici in northern Macedonia, was signed by a certain Menander Aphrodisieus.

TNMM701 – CIMRM 1893, 1894

The relief of Mithras killing the bull from the Jajce Mithraeum is walled into the cult niche and surmounted by a roof.

TNMM697 – CIMRM 1902

This relief of Mithras as a bullkiller was found in Golubić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, near a cementery.

TNMM696 – CIMRM 1910, 1911

Vermaseren noted in his Corpus that he had been informed of a fragmented relief of Mithras killing the bull in "the museum at Ghighen".

TNMM695 – CIMRM 2253

This low relief on an altar of Mithras killing the bull was found in a church in Pisignano, south of Ravenna.

TNMM675 – CIMRM 692

This fragmentary relief depicts Mithras killing the bull in the usual manner, remarkably dressed in oriental attire.

TNMM539 – CIMRM 607

This statue of Mithras as a bullkiller was bought at Rome where it might be found.

TNMM674 – CIMRM 596

This Mithras killing the bull belonged to the sculptor V. Pancetti before being exhibited in the Vatican Museums under Pius VI.

TNMM208 – CIMRM 548

This relief of Mithras killing the bull, signed by a certain Χρῆστος, is on display in the Sala dei Animali of the Vatican Museum.

TNMM673 – CIMRM 554, 555

This is one of the three reliefs depicting Mithras killing the bull that the Louvre Museum acquired from the Roman Villa Borghese collection.

TNMM672 – CIMRM 586