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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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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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Zodiacal relief fragment from Catania

Circular marble relief preserving part of the bull, a serpent and zodiacal signs associated with Mithraic iconography.

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Tauroctony statue fragment from Sentinum

A marble statue fragment found at Sentinum (modern Sassoferrato) in ancient Umbria, walled in the atrium of the Palazzo Raccamadoro-Ramelli, showing Mithras tauroctone with dog, serpent and scorpion, one foot pointing towards a torchbearer; the bull's head, tail and Mithras'…

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Cross-shaped medal with Sol and Luna from the Spoleto Mithraeum

A medal in the form of a Grecian cross from the Mithraeum at Spoleto, showing busts of a bearded man and a veiled woman each with a radiate crown, identified by Cumont as Sol and Luna.

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Mithras head and tauroctony fragment from the Terni area

Two Mithraic monuments received by the Museo Nazionale delle Terme in Rome in 1896, reportedly from Narni: a small head of Mithras tauroctone in Phrygian cap with traces of red and gilding, and a central relief fragment of Mithras slaying the bull.

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Tauroctony relief fragment probably from Narni

A marble tauroctony relief fragment probably from Narni (ancient Narnia) in Umbria, now in the Museo Nazionale delle Terme in Rome, preserving Mithras in Eastern dress as a bullkiller with dog and Cautopates standing cross-legged before the bull; the exact find-spot is uncertain…

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Tauroctony relief with torchbearers from Settignano, near Florence

A rectangular marble tauroctony relief found in Etruria, once in the Villa Martin at Settignano near Florence, showing Mithras slaying the bull with Cautes and Cautopates in Eastern attire cross-legged on either side and the busts of Sol and Luna in the upper corners;…

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Tauroctony statue fragment from Florence, Palazzo Corsini

A white marble tauroctony statue fragment in the Palazzo Corsini in Florence, possibly from the Florentine area, heavily restored, with the upper body of Mithras and the bull's hind quarter with scorpion preserved but hind-legs lost and the god's head replaced by a petasus…

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Tauroctony relief from Soriano nel Cimino

A white marble tauroctony relief found near a Roman villa on the northern slope of Mount Ciminus near Soriano nel Cimino in Etruria, showing Mithras slaying the bull with dog, serpent and scorpion, the bull's tail ending in three ears of grain, the god's resting leg abnormally small…

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Tauroctony relief from Sutri

A marble tauroctony relief, broken in two pieces, found at Sutri in Etruria in 1896 and now in the Museo Nazionale delle Terme in Rome, with raven, dog, serpent and scorpion present, the upper part with the heads of Sol and Mithras broken off and Luna's bust alone preserved…

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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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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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