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The New Mithraeum Database

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Relief de Bourg-Saint-Andéol

The low relief of Bourg-Saint-Andéol depicting Mithras killing the bull has been chiseled on the rock.

 
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Intaglio of Mithras Tauroctonus at the Walters Art Museum

This ancient carnelian intaglio mounted in gold depicts Mithras slaying the bull surrounded by his companions Cautes and Cautopates.

 
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Bronze plaque of Mithras slaying the bull

Mithras Tauroctony on bronze exposed at the Metropolitan Museum of New York.

 
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Tauroctony stele of Nicopolis ad Istrum

The Tauroctony of Nicopolis ad Istrum is unique as it is the only Mithraic stele befitting a Greek donor.

 
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Tauroctony exhibited at the Cincinnati Art Museum

In the tauroctonic relief on display at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Mithras slaughters the bull over a rocky background.

 
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Tauroctony of Sarrebourg

The Tauroctony of Saarbourg (Sarrebourg, ancient Pons Sarravi), France, contains most of Mithras deeds known in a single relief.

 
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Tauroctony of Aigio

The Tauroctony of Patras was found years before the temple over which the relief of Mithras sacrificing the bull was supposed to preside.

 
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Mitreo di Felicissimo

The Mithraeum Felicissimus has a floor mosaic depicting the seven mithraic grades.

 
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Mithras rock-birth of Trier

The relief depicts the birth of Mithras, holding a globe, surrounded by the zodiac.

 
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Interpreting the Ponza Zodiac

Roger Beck revisits the zodiac circle of the Mithraeum on the island of Ponza, a composition unique within the Mithraic corpus. His reading places the monument in relation to cosmology, ritual space, and Mithraic doctrine.

 
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Tauroctony from Hermopolis

In the Tauroctony of Hermopolis, Cautes and Cautopates are placed over two columns at each side of the sacrifice.

 
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Tauroctony bronze of Szőny

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

 
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Tauroctony from Albacini

This black marble of Mithras killing the Bull has belonged to the sculptor Carlo Albacini.

 
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Tauroctony of Zadar

The relief of Mithras killing the bull of Zadar includes a naked Sol in a quadriga.

 
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Tauroctony of York

This stone in basso relief of Mithras killing the bull was found 10 foot underground in Micklegate York in 1747.

 
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Tauroctony of Bologna

The relief of Mithras killing the bull of Bologna depicts several scenes of the mithraic myth.

 
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CIMRM 6

Gold coin.

 
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CIMRM 372

Marble relief (H. 0.43 Br. 0.85 D. 0.065), of which the left lower corner is missing.

 
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CIMRM 375

A low-relief of Mithras tauroctone was found in 1928 by the Comtesse de Robi- lant in a cellar, full of the debris of the Palazzo del Grillo behind the Forum of Augustus.

 
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CIMRM 465

Small marble relief (H. 0.20 Br. 0.25 D.0.06).

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