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Fritz Saxl interprets Mithraism primarily through its images, proposing the cult as a visual cosmology structured around the descent, sacrifice and re-ascent of light, developed in close dialogue with Aby Warburg and Erwin Panofsky.
The bronze medallion, from Cilicia, shows Mithras Tauroctonus on the revers.
The sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull was transported from Rome to London by Charles Standish in 1815.
Several Mithraic scenes, including Mithras with Saturn, Mithras with Sol and Mithras' Ascension, are depicted on this fragment of a relief from Ptuj.
This unusual representation of Mithras standing on a bull was kept in the Casino di Villa Altieri sul Monte Esquilino until the 19th century.
The Mithraic relief from Baris, in present-day Turkey, shows what appears to be a proto-version of the Tauroctony, with a winged Mithras surrounded by two Victories.
The relief of Sol was found during the construction of Piazza Dante in Rome in 1874.
The relief of Mithras slaying the bull found on the Esquiline Hill includes two additional scenes with Mithras and two other figures.
A naked Mithra emerges from the cosmic egg surrounded by the zodiac, as always carrying a torch and a dagger.
The main fresco of the Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere portrays Mithras slaughtering a white bull.
Antiochus I of Commagene shakes Mithras hands in this relief from the Nemrut Dagi temple.
Except for the serpent, the sculpture of the taurcotony found on the Esquiline Hill lacks the usual animals that accompany Mithras in sacrifice.
The sculpture of the birth of Mithras in Florence included the head of Oceanus.
This plaque was found in Mithraeum I at Stockstadt broken into pieces inserted between the blocks of the socle of the cult relief, in the manner of a votive deposit.
Currently in the Musei Vaticani, this Tauroctony includes Mithras’s birth restored as Venus anaduomene.
This fragmentary relief depicts Mithras killing the bull in the usual manner, remarkably dressed in oriental attire.
This tauroctony relief is distinguished by the rare depiction of Tellus reclining beneath the bull.
This monograph presents the findings from Robert J. Bull's 1973 excavation of the Mithraeum in Caesarea Maritima, Israel, including stratigraphic analyses, studies of frescoes and and insights into the site's historical significance.
Second terracotta tablet found at Calvi depicting Mithras killing the bull, now at Berlin, Antiquarium.
This terra sigillata was found in 1926 in a grave on the Roman cemetery of St. Matthias, Trier. An eyelet indicates that it could have been hung on a wall.
