Monuments to Mithras tagged with ‘tauroctonia’

Saul cutting the oxen to pieces poses as Mithras Tauroctonos in this painting, which adorns the mantelpiece of Henry II’s bedroom at the Château d’Écouen near Paris.

TNMM771

New evidence for the cult of Mithras and the religious practices of Legio IV Scythica at the Roman frontier city of Zeugma on the Euphrates.

TNMM1388

Bronze statuette of Mithras in his characteristic bull-slaying pose, though only the god has been preserved.

TNMM1111 – CIMRM 595

This relief of Mithras killing the bull includes an unusual owl at the feet of Cautopates and a cock next to Cautes.

TNMM589

This relief of Mithras slaying the bull, framed by acanthus leaves, was sold at auction in 2011 by Bonhams.

TNMM1387

The person who commanded the sculpture may have been M. Umbilius Criton, documented in the Mitreo della Planta Pedis.

TNMM108 – CIMRM 230, 231

This sculpture of Mithras killing the bull was dedicated to the ’incomprehensible god’ by a certain priest called Gaius Valerius Heracles.

TNMM106 – CIMRM 310, 311

Fragment of a greyish marble relief depicting Mithras slaying the bull beneath a rocky grotto.

TNMM1112 – CIMRM 597

Roman stone low-relief depicting Mithras as a bull-slayer, with the upper part of his head missing.

TNMM1123 – CIMRM 615

Fragment of a marble relief (H. 0.27 Br. 0.38 D. 0.045).

TNMM1141 – CIMRM 635

The relief depict several unusual scenes from Mithras’s myth.

TNMM128

This marble relief depicting Mithras killing the bull, found at Porto d’Anzio in 1699 and now lost, is known from a engraving by del Torre.

TNMM908 – CIMRM 204

In this terracotta relief depicting Mithras as a bull killer found at Cales, now in Calvi Risorta, none of the usual accompanying animals is present.

TNMM904 – CIMRM 200

Second terracotta tablet found at Calvi depicting Mithras killing the bull, now at Berlin, Antiquarium.

TNMM905 – CIMRM 201

White marble statue of Mithras killing the sacred bull preserved in the Museo Nacional Romano.

TNMM1070 – CIMRM 531

Partial marble statue of Mithras as a bullkiller found near Viale Latino, about 200 meters from Porta San Giovanni.

TNMM969 – CIMRM 374

White marble relief depicting Mithras killing the bull, found broken in two parts in 1872 near Salita delle Tre Pile in Rome.

TNMM995 – CIMRM 417

Fragment of a white marble statue of Mithras killing the bull from Rusicade, today Skikda, Algeria.

TNMM860 – CIMRM 122

This marble relief depicting Mithras as a bull-slayer was once owned by Major Holzhausen and Franz Cumont and is now housed at the Belgian Academy.

TNMM805 – CIMRM 1906

The mithraic relief of Konjic shows a Tauroctony in one side and a ritual meal in the other.

TNMM259 – CIMRM 1896