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Cautopates torchbearer relief from Rome

A marble relief depicting Cautopates as a standing cross-legged torchbearer in Eastern attire with his burning torch pointing downwards, found in Rome near the Via Appia and now in the Museo Nazionale delle Terme, the head and much of the torch lost.

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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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Tauroctony group with torchbearers in one piece, Rome

A small tauroctony group once in the collection of the sculptor Antonio d'Este in Rome, depicting Mithras as a bullkiller with the two torchbearers, the entire composition carved from a single piece of stone.

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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 relief fragment from the Villa Ludovisi, Rome

A white marble tauroctony relief fragment, in the seventeenth century at the Palazzo Caesiani near the Vatican and later in the Villa Ludovisi in Rome, showing Mithras slaying the bull with dog, serpent and raven, with a cross-legged torchbearer on a base; now lost…

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Red ware dish fragment with tauroctony from Rome

Fragment of a red ware dish from Rome, now in the Akademisches Kunstmuseum at Bonn, with a representation of Mithras as a bull-killer sitting astride the bull with a flying cloak.

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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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Altar of T. Pomponius Repentinus from Rome

Marble altar lacking its tympanum, found in the house of Franciscus Novellus near S. Marco in Rome, dedicated to Sol Invictus by T. Pomponius Repentinus, a nomenclator and keeper of public records, with two denarii distributed at the dedication; dated to 184 A.D…

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Altar of P. Aelius Amandus from Rome

Marble altar in the Museo Capitolino, Rome, bearing a bust of Sol and a dedication by P. Aelius Amandus, a soldier of the equites singulares Augusti, in fulfilment of a vow on receiving his honourable discharge, dated to 158 A.D.

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Altar of Victor, farm bailiff of the Maeciani, from Rome

Tiburtine stone altar from the gardens of the Perettiani family in Rome, with a dedication to Sol Invictus Mithras by Victor, farm bailiff of the Maeciani estates, through the priest M. Stlaccio Rufo, dated to 154 or 177 A.D.

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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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Marble relief of Mithras tauroktonos from Villa Wolkonsky, Rome

Marble relief from the Villa Wolkonsky showing Mithras slaying the bull, with the serpent creeping over the ground.

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Fragment of small white marble relief of Mithras tauroktonos from Palazzo Rondinini, Rome

Fragment of a small white marble relief showing Mithras slaying the bull with the dog, serpent and scorpion, formerly walled in the inner court of the Palazzo Rondinini (now Palazzo Sanseverino), Corso No. 518.

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Relief of bluish marble of Mithras tauroktonos from Villa Doria Pamphili, Rome

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.

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White marble relief of Mithras tauroktonos from Villa Giustiniani, Rome

White marble relief from the Casino of the Villa Giustiniani showing Mithras slaying the bull, whose tail ends in ears, with the usual torchbearers, dog, serpent, scorpion and raven, and the busts of Sol and Luna in the upper corners.

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Small marble relief of primitive Mithras tauroktonos, Museo Capitolino, Rome

Small marble relief from the Aventine showing a primitive representation of Mithras slaying the bull, without torchbearers or Sol and Luna, with a raven on the flying cloak, the dog and serpent near the wound, and a scorpion, now in the Museo Capitolino.

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Marble relief fragments of Mithras tauroktonos from the Caracalla Mithraeum, Rome

Fragments of a marble relief of Mithras as bull-killer from the Caracalla Mithraeum, preserving the knee of the bull's right hind-leg, the bent knee of Mithras, and parts of the serpent, dog, cock and a bust in a tunic.

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Fragment of Greek marble relief of Mithras tauroktonos from Via Borgo Vecchio, Rome

Fragment of a Greek marble relief found in the Via Borgo Vecchio, preserving only the lower part of Mithras as bull-killer in tunic and flying cloak, with a Cautes bearing an upraised torch behind the bull.

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Marble serpent's head from the Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum, Rome

Marble serpent's head with a small hole at the beginning of its neck, belonging to a Mithras bull-killing group or a rock-birth scene, from the Mithraeum at the Palazzo dei Musei, Rome.

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