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The New Mithraeum Database

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Tauroctony relief with Cautopates from Mithraeum III, Ptuj

Marble tauroctony relief from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving Mithras killing the bull — head and most of the flying cloak lost — flanked by Cautopates holding the torch downward.

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Tauroctony with three-headed serpent from Mithraeum III, Ptuj

Marble tauroctony relief fragment from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, notable for a three-headed serpent and a dog attempting to lick the blood; the bull's tail ends in three corn-ears.

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Terracotta tauroctony statuette from Mithraeum II, Ptuj

Terracotta statuette from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, depicting Mithras as bull-slayer with yellow-painted garments; the piece was not recovered during the author's visit and may be lost.

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Tauroctony forepart with Cautes from Mithraeum II, Ptuj

Foremost portion of a marble tauroctony relief from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving the bull's forepart, the serpent's head, the turning dog, and Cautes raising the torch with both hands.

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Tauroctony lower panel from Mithraeum II, Ptuj

Marble relief from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving the lower part of the tauroctony with a bull in full extension, the scorpion, and a serpent with upraised head, together with Cautopates behind the bull.

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Tauroctony fragment with Sol and Cautopates from Mithraeum II, Ptuj

Left portion of a marble tauroctony relief from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving the bust of Sol and below it standing Cautopates with a downward torch, together with the bull's hind-leg and Mithras's right leg.

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Tauroctony relief with raven from Mithraeum II, Ptuj

White marble tauroctony relief from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, depicting Mithras in Oriental dress killing the bull with a girdle and the raven perched on the grotto's border.

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Tauroctony relief with uplifted torches from Ruše

Weathered marble tauroctony relief in two fragments from Ruše, Noricum, depicting the bull-slaying with only the dog visible, flanked by two torchbearers both holding their torches upraised; no Sol or Luna.

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Weathered tauroctony relief from Ruše

Small marble tauroctony relief from Ruše, Noricum, badly weathered, depicting the bull-slaying in a grotto-like niche with cross-legged torchbearers on bases.

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Marble tauroctony from Mithraeum III, Heddernheim

Fragments of a white marble arched tauroctony from Mithraeum III at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, showing Mithras killing the bull in a leaf wreath

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Tauroctony relief from Friedberg Mithraeum II

Marble relief fragment showing Mithras slaying the bull, originally belonging to a lost second Mithraeum at Friedberg.

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Zodiacal tauroctony relief from Friedberg

Small marble relief of Mithras slaying the bull within a wreath decorated with zodiac signs.

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Amethyst intaglio with Tauroctony

Amethyst intaglio engraved with Mithras slaying the bull, accompanied by Sol, Luna and other canonical Mithraic symbols.

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Relief of Mithras and Cautes from Aïtodor

Small surviving fragment depicting Mithras as bull-slayer together with the torchbearer Cautes.

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Tauroctony fragment from Aïtodor

Scene from a bull-slaying relief preserving the dagger of Mithras, the dog and the raised torch of Cautes.

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Red sandstone tauroctony from Heddernheim

Relief in red sandstone originally standing on a base in Mithraeum I at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, featuring the bull-slaying scene.

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Tauroctony from 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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Tauroctony from Sî`

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

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Parthian dipinto from Dura-Europos

Painted Parthian inscription on a ceramic sherd possibly referring to Mithras as a bull-slayer.

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Tauroctony from Ottaviano Zeno

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.

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