The New Mithraeum Database

The cantharus of Trier is reminiscent of the crater that often appears in tauroctony scenes collecting the blood from the slaughtered animal.

The Mithraeum of Szony has the form of a grotto and the entrance is on the west side.

Szony's bronze plate shows Mithra slaying the bull and the seven planets with attributes at the bottom of the composition.

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

The underground cave which served as temple was cut into the conglomerate rock of the area, and a flight of eight steps of stone slabs led to it.

This temple of Mithras on the north side of the Capitoline Hill in Rome no longer exists.

The head of Serapis found at Walbrook, London, is decorated with stylised olive branches.

Relief of Heracles/Hercules capturing the Golden Hind of Artemis.

The sculpture of Aion from Florence, Italy, has the usual serpent, coiled six times on its body, whose head rests on that of the god of eternal time.

In one of Hawarte's frescoes, the rock birth of Mithras is preceded by Zeus and followed by the young Persian god suspended from a cypress tree.

Palæographia Britannica: or, discourses on antiquities that relate to the history of Britain. Number III.

The folio depicts three tauroctonies and a Mithras Triumphantes standing on a bull with the globe in one hand and the dagger in the other.

The intarsium of Sol found in the Mithraeum of Santa Prisca is composed of several varieties of marble.

The St Albans mithraic vase depicts fragments of three figures identified by Vermaseren as Hercules, Mercury and Mithras as an archer.

The red ceramic vessel from Lanuvium shows Mithra carrying the bull, followed by the dog, and the Tauroctony on the opposite side.

This statue of the god lion-head was found in Memphis, Egypt.

In the tauroctony of Jabal al-Druze in Syria, the snake appears to be licking the head of the bull's penis.

The second tauroctony of Jabal al-Druze seems to have be made by the same sculptor.

Of this great relief of Mithras slaying the bull only a few segments remain.