Monuments: TNMdB

A marble tauroctony discovered in the military quarter of ancient Zeugma, providing the first known evidence for the cult of Mithras at the city.

Marble relief from the Mithraic sanctuary founded by brothers Marcus Aurelius Frontinianus and Marcus Aurelius Fronto.

Small marble relief from Alcsút, near modern Alcsútdoboz, combining the central tauroctony with scenes of Mithras’ deeds, including the water miracle, sacred meal and ascent in Sol’s chariot.

Monumental painted tauroctony dedicated by Titus Flavius Viator, with traces of its original polychromy and fittings for metal rays on Mithras’ Phrygian cap.

A Getic ceremonial gold helmet bearing a ram-sacrifice scene proposed by some scholars as a possible iconographic precursor to the Mithraic tauroctony.

The Tauroctony of Nicopolis ad Istrum is a rare Mithraic stele bearing two Greek dedications from different phases of its use.

The marble shows Mithras slaying the bull, on one side, and Sol and Mithras feasting on a bull skin, on the other.

Fragmentary two-sided Mithraic relief depicting the rock-birth, Zodiac and other mythological scenes from Stockstadt.

Relief of bluish marble in the Casino of the Villa Doria Pamphili showing Mithras slaying the bull with the usual animals, cross-legged torchbearers, and Sol in a quadriga and Luna in a biga in the upper corners.

This limestone relief of Mithras killing the bull bears an inscription by a certain Flavius Horimos, consecrated in a ’secret forest’ in Moesia.

This relief is so well-known that it has been reproduced in nearly every handbook of archaeology and of history of religions.

The sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull was transported from Rome to London by Charles Standish in 1815.

Limestone tauroctony relief from the Mithraeum of Memphis, depicting Mithras sacrificing a small bull inside a rocky cave.

Primitive limestone tauroctony relief from the Mithraeum of Memphis, preserving a simplified representation of Mithras slaying the bull.

Marble tauroctony relief from the Mithraeum of Memphis, depicting Mithras slaying the bull within an architectural niche framed by Cautes and Cautopates.

Rock-cut tauroctony forming the cult image of Mithraeum I at Doliche, later deliberately defaced by Christian iconoclasts.

Small marble relief from the Aventine showing a primitive representation of Mithras slaying the bull, without torchbearers or Sol and Luna.

The main relief of Mithras killing the bull from the Mithraeum of Dura Europos includes three persons named Zenobius, Jariboles and Barnaadath.

The tauroctony relief of Sidon depicts the signs of the zodiac and the four seasons, among other familiar features.

The Mithras killing the bull sculpture from Sidon, currently Lebanon.