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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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Tauroctony relief found between Porta Portese and St Pancrace
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.
TNMM671 – CIMRM 585
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Tauroctony of Villa Borghese
This is one of the three reliefs of Mithras as a bullkiller from the Villa Borghese collection that belong to the Louvre museum, now in the Louvre Abu Dhabi.
TNMM669 – CIMRM 588
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Tauroctony of via di Borgo
This relief of Mithras Tauroctonos from Rome bears the inscription of three brothers, two of them lions.
TNMM649 – CIMRM 366, 367
Deo sancto I(nvicto) M(ithrae) sacrathis (sic) d(onum) p(osuerunt) Placidus Marcellinus leo antis{ti}tes et Guntha leo.
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Tauroctony of Aelius Maximus of Turda
This small relief of Mithras killing the bull was found in 1859 in Turda, in the Cluj region of Romania.
TNMM668 – CIMRM 1920, 1921
Ael(ius) Maximus miles / leg(ionis) V Mac(edonicae) v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) p(osuit).
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Tauroctony of Aurelios Stephanos from Sibiu
This relief of Mithras killing the bull is unique in the Apulum Mithraic repertoire because of its inscription in Greek.
TNMM667 – CIMRM 2002
Αὐρήλι(ο)ς Στέφανος θεῷ Μίθρᾳ / εὐχαριστήρι(ο)ν.
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Tauroctony of Alba Iulia with collared dog
This relief of Mithras killing the bull from Apulum, now Alba Iulia, Romania, contains several scenes from the Mithras legend.
TNMM664 – CIMRM 1972
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Tauroctony from Cluj
Several elements, such as the snake, scorpion or dog, are missing from this tauroctony relief of Cluj.
TNMM280 – CIMRM 2025
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Tauroctony relief of Alba Iulia
The relief of Mithra slaying the bull from Apulum, Romania, has been missing until the scholar Csaba Szabó identified it in the diposit of the Arad Museum.
TNMM346 – CIMRM 1938
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Tauroctony of Pleven
This relief of Mithras killing the bull in a vaulted grotto lacks the usual scorpion pinching the bull's testicles.
TNMM662 – CIMRM 2257
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Tauroctony of Euhemerus from Alba Iulia
Several authors read the name Suaemedus instead of Euhemerus as the author of this mithraic relief from Alba Iulia, Romania.
TNMM663 – CIMRM 1975, 1976
Deo invicto Mithr(a)e / Euhemerus ex voto / posuit.
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Tauroctony of Santiponce
This unfinished Mithras tauroctonos without the usual surrounding animals was found in 1923 in Italica, near Seville, Spain.
TNMM659 – CIMRM 769
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Tauroctony of Palermo
The assumed find-place of the Mithras Tauroctonus of Palermo is uncertain.
TNMM150 – CIMRM 164
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Tauroctony of Dormagen
The sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull found in Dormagen is exposed at Bonn Landesmuseum.
TNMM264 – CIMRM 1012, 1013
D(eo) S(oli) i(nvicto) imp(erio) C. Amandinius / Verus buc(inator) v(otum) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito).
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Tauroctony of Târgușor
This limestone relief of Mithras killing the bull bears an inscription by a certain Flavius Horimos, consecrated in a 'secret forest' in Moesia.
TNMM641 – CIMRM 2306, 2307
Ὣριμος / πατὴ/ρ ἀνέ/θηκε/ν. Φλ(άουιος) Ὣριμος Φλ(αουίου) Μακέδονος οἰκονόμος κατ᾽ ἐπιταγήν / θεῷ ἀνεικήτῳ �…
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Altar from Mitreo di San Clemente
The altar of the Mithraeum of San Clemente bears the Tauroctony on the front, Cautes and Cautopates on the right and left sides and a serpent on the back.
TNMM469 – CIMRM 339, 340
Cn(aeus) Arrius Claudianus / pater posuit.
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Tauroctony/Repast of Castra Pretoria
This fragment of a double relief shows a tauroctony on one side and the sacred meal, including a serving Corax, on the other.
TNMM651 – CIMRM 397
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Tauroctony of the Mitreo dell'Esquilino
This simple relief of Mithras killing the bull without his companions Cautes and Cautopates was found in the so-called Mithraeum of the Esquilino, Rome.
TNMM645 – CIMRM 357
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Tauroctony relief from Ladenburg
The Tauroctony from Landerburg, Germany, shows a naked Mithras only accompanied by his fellow Cautes.
TNMM290 – CIMRM 1275
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Tauroctony of Aelius Hylas from Doştat
This monument bears an inscription by a certain Lucius Aelius Hylas, in which he associates Sol Invictus with Jupiter.
TNMM642 – CIMRM 2006, 2007
Io(vi) S(oli) invi(cto) / deo genitori / r(upe) n(ato). L. Aeli(us) Hylas (vicesimarius) l(ibertus) pr(o) sa(lute) et Horientis (sic) fil(ii) sui et Apuleia(e) eius signum numinis cum absidata / ex v…
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Tauroctony of Euthices from Apulum
This marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was made by a freedman who dedicated it to his old masters.
TNMM638 – CIMRM 1935, 1936
D(eo) S(oli) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / [pro salute et incolumi]tate M. Aurelii Timothei et Aur(elii) Maximii / [votum nuncupavit sol]vitq(ue) Euthices eorum l[ib(ertus)].