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The New Mithraeum Database

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Bull fragment from Butzbach

Basalt fragment preserving the skin and hoof of a bull probably belonging to a tauroctony scene.

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Multi-register tauroctony relief from Niederbiber

Marble stele relief with bull-slaying scene and subsidiary Mithraic episodes including the sacred banquet.

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Tauroctony vase from Lezoux

Decorated ceramic vessel showing Mithras slaying the bull together with torchbearers, zodiacal motifs and figures of abundance.

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Altar to Apollo-Mithras from Whitley Castle

Sandstone altar combining imagery of Apollo, Mithras and the torchbearers Cautes and Cautopates near the Roman fort of Whitley Castle.

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Statue once interpreted as Mithras from Aveiro

Bearded nude statue formerly claimed to be Mithraic but later rejected as a seventeenth-century sculpture unrelated to the cult.

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Tauroctony relief from Corniculum

Marble relief showing Mithras slaying the bull inside a vaulted cave accompanied by Sol, Luna and the torchbearers.

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Tauroctony from Dragus

The tauroctonic relief from Dragus includes a naked flying figure that Vermaseren has identified as Phosporus or Lucifer.

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Two-sided relief from Konjic

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

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Possible Aion statue from the Via Cassia near Rome

A statue found along the Via Cassia about six kilometres from Rome, tentatively identified as an Aion entwined by a serpent but possibly representing Atargatis according to Vermaseren, now in the Museo Nazionale delle Terme.

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Tauroctony statue with torchbearers from Lorium on the Via Aurelia

A white marble tauroctony statue found in 1925 at the ancient site of Lorium near the eleventh milestone on the Via Aurelia outside Rome, showing Mithras slaying the bull with dog, serpent and scorpion, accompanied by Cautes and Cautopates; now in the Palazzo Doria…

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Two lost tauroctony monuments from Palazzo Barberini and Palazzo Sanesio, Rome

Two lost Mithraic monuments from Rome: one documented in a 1738 catalogue of the Palazzo Barberini as a tauroctony group with scorpion, snake and dog, and another mentioned by Pirro Ligorio as a Mithras panel in the Palazzo del Duca di Sanseverino.

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Two tauroctony statues from near Porta Maggiore, Rome

Two tauroctony statues formerly at the Villa del Grande near the Porta Maggiore in Rome, both lacking the upper part of Mithras and the bull's head.

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Tauroctony relief with raven holding fruit from Villa Ludovisi, Rome

A bluish marble tauroctony relief once in the Villa Ludovisi in Rome, showing Mithras slaying the bull with the raven perched on his cloak holding a heart-shaped fruit, the bull's tail ending in ears of grain, and the dressed busts of Sol and Luna in the upper corners…

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Tauroctony marble group with bull's tail ending in three ears, Rome

A white marble tauroctony group in the round found near the Forum in Rome in 1919, showing Mithras slaying the bull with dog, serpent and scorpion, the bull's tail ending in three ears of grain; possibly identical with No. 605.

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Tauroctony statue from Rome, now in Berlin

Marble statue of Mithras slaying the bull, with the dog and serpent directing their heads to the wound and the scorpion at the testicles, probably found in Rome and now in the Altes Museum at Berlin; Mithras' head, front part of his arms and cloak, and the bull's muzzle are lost…

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Marble slab fragment with leaping ox from Rome

Fragment of a grey marble slab formerly in the Palazzo Caponii and now in the Vatican Musea, Galleria Lapidaria, with an inscription on two arched borders and a leaping ox in the blank space.

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Tauroctony fragment with Cautopates and Luna bust from Rome

Fragment of a small tauroctony relief in the Museo Lateranense, Rome, preserving the bull's head and the upper part of Cautopates pointing his torch downwards with both hands, and the bust of Luna with crescent in the upper corner.

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Tauroctony relief with ant at the testicles from Rome

Tauroctony relief in the Museo Torlonia, Rome, remarkable for having a large ant grasping the testicles in place of the scorpion, with the raven on Mithras' flying cloak, the dog and serpent near the wound, and the busts of Sol and Luna in the upper corners; no torchbearers represented…

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Base of bluish marble with encircling serpent, Villa Giustiniani, Vatican Musea

Base of bluish marble formerly in the Villa Giustiniani near Porta Flaminia and now in the Vatican Musea, Cortile della Pigna, with a round pedestal encircled by a bearded crested serpent biting its own tail, probably supporting a statue of Aion.

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White marble statue of cross-legged torchbearer in Eastern attire, Mus. Naz. Terme, Rome

White marble statue of a cross-legged torchbearer in Eastern attire from Rome with a broken upraised torch and head and feet lost, probably the companion piece of No. 504, now in the Museo Nazionale delle Terme.

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