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Franz Cumont considers the bas relief of Osterburken ’the most remarkable of all the monuments of the cult of Mithras found up to now’.
The Mithraeum of Osterburken could not be excavated bodily owing to the water of a well in the immediate neighbourhood. The monument had been covered carefully with sand.
Offered the famous Tauroctony of Osterburken to the unconquerable sun god Mithras.
Interpreting the Bas-relief of Mithras Tauroctonos from Osterburken in the Light of Porphyry’s Treatise, The Cave of the Nymphs.
This tauroctony relief is distinguished by the rare depiction of Tellus reclining beneath the bull.
The author of this ingenious memoir believes that the Greek myth of Orion is the very basis of Roman Mithriacism. His starting point is an astronomical interpretation of tauroctony.
The relief of Dieburg shows Mithras riding a horse as main figure, surrounded by several scenes of the myth.
In this fresco from Dura Europos, Mithras is represented as a hunter accompanied by the lion and the serpent.
The relief of Mithras killing the bull of Stefano Rotodon preserves part of his polycromy and depicts two unusual figures: Hesperus and an owl.
