The New Mithraeum Database

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There are no further details about this Mithraic statue from Transylvania, the historical region of central Romania.

TNMM705 – CIMRM 2185

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull at Mauls in Gallia cisalpina is a paradigmatic example of the so-called Rhine-type Tauroctony.

TNMM476 – CIMRM 1400

This intaglio with Mithras killing the bull on one side and Kabiros on the other was probably used as a magical amulet.

TNMM551 – CIMRM 2366

This unusual piece depicts Mithras slaying the bull on one side and the Gnostic god Abraxas on the other.

TNMM544 – CIMRM 2364

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In this relief of Mithras as bull slayer, recorded in 1562 in the collection of A. Magarozzi, Cautes and Cautopates have been replaced by trees still bearing the torches.

TNMM125 – CIMRM 335

This is one of the three reliefs depicting Mithras killing the bull that the Louvre Museum acquired from the Roman Villa Borghese collection.

TNMM672 – CIMRM 586

This is one of the three reliefs of Mithras as a bullkiller from the Villa Borghese collection that belong to the Louvre museum, now in the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

TNMM669 – CIMRM 588

This relief of Mithras killing the bull from Apulum, now Alba Iulia, Romania, contains several scenes from the Mithras legend.

TNMM664 – CIMRM 1972

Several authors read the name Suaemedus instead of Euhemerus as the author of this mithraic relief from Alba Iulia, Romania.

TNMM663 – CIMRM 1975, 1976

The Tauroctony from Landerburg, Germany, shows a naked Mithras only accompanied by his fellow Cautes.

TNMM290 – CIMRM 1275

This marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was made by a freedman who dedicated it to his old masters.

TNMM638 – CIMRM 1935, 1936

This Cautopates from Nida carries the usual downward torch in his right hand and a hooked stick in his left.

TNMM105 – CIMRM 1110

The inscription reports the restoration of the coloured painting of the main relief of the Mithraeum by a veteran of the Legio VIII Augusta.

TNMM253 – CIMRM 1361

Some authors have speculated that the flying figure dressed in oriental style and holding a globe could be Mithras.

TNMM577

The bronze medallion, from Cilicia, shows Mithras Tauroctonus on the revers.

TNMM274 – CIMRM 27

The marble Aion from the lost Mithraeum Fagan, Ostia, now presides the entrance to the Vatican Library.

TNMM116 – CIMRM 312, 313

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

TNMM114 – CIMRM 966, 967