This site uses cookies to offer you a better browsing experience.
Find out more on how we use cookies in our privacy policy.

 
Quaere

The New Mithraeum Database

Find news, articles, monuments, persons, books and videos related to the Cult of Mithras

Your search Roger Jehu Bull gave 454 results.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief fragment from Pula

A fragmentary limestone tauroctony relief found on the south slope of the Castellhügel at Pola (modern Pula) during the demolition of a wall, now in the Lapidary Museum at Pula, preserving the bull's body, the dog, the serpent, the scorpion and a standing cross-legged torchbearer…

Monumentum

Tauroctony small fragment from unknown provenance

Marble tauroctony relief fragment from an unknown provenance, preserving part of Mithras's body, his right arm and dagger, and his left arm grasping the bull by the nostrils.

Monumentum

Tauroctony upper body fragment from unknown provenance

Limestone tauroctony relief fragment of unknown provenance, preserving the upper part of Mithras as bull-slayer with the flying cloak on which the raven is perched.

Monumentum

Tauroctony upper right from unknown provenance

Limestone tauroctony relief fragment of unknown provenance, preserving the upper part of the right torchbearer of a bull-slaying scene.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from unknown provenance

White marble tauroctony relief fragment of unknown provenance, preserving the foremost part of the bull and part of Mithras as bull-slayer.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from unknown provenance

Arched white marble tauroctony relief of unknown provenance, depicting the standard bull-slaying in the usual attitude with dog and serpent.

Monumentum

Tauroctony with water miracle from Dacia

Marble tauroctony relief fragment from Dacia, preserved in Bucharest, with only Mithras's head and part of his flying cloak visible; above this a water-miracle scene and above that the bull in a small boat.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief with polychromy traces from Entrains-sur-Nohain

A fragment of a limestone relief from Interanum (modern Entrains-sur-Nohain) in Lugdunensis, with the bull best preserved showing a belt round its body, together with traces of polychromy and remnants of the dog and serpent.

Monumentum

Tauroctony fragment with scorpion from Entrains-sur-Nohain

A fragment of a white stone relief from Interanum (modern Entrains-sur-Nohain) in Lugdunensis, preserving only Mithras's right foot pressing on the bull's hindleg, a visible scorpion, and the shod foot of a torchbearer.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief fragment from Entrains-sur-Nohain

A fragment of a pebble relief showing Mithras as bullkiller, with the collar-wearing dog holding its head near the wound, found in the bed of a stream at Interanum (modern Entrains-sur-Nohain) in Lugdunensis.

Monumentum

Two terracotta lamps with Mithraic imagery from the Passeri collection, Pesaro

Two terracotta lamps formerly in the Coll. Passeri and now probably in the Museo Olivieri at Pesaro: the first showing Mithras as a bullkiller, the second in the shape of a bull's head inscribed Μέθρα ἱερός on the horns, both regarded as probably forged…

Monumentum

Double-sided limestone relief with raven and tauroctony from Val di Non

A double-sided limestone relief found near Meclo in Val di Non in 1895, now in the Museo Nazionale at Trento, with a raven and altar scene on the obverse and scenes on the reverse showing a figure attacking a kneeling Phrygian-capped person and Mithras as a bull-carrier…

Monumentum

Limestone tauroctony relief from San Zeno di Romedio, near Trento

A limestone low-relief tauroctony fragment found in 1869 near the entrance of the valley of San Zeno di Romedio in the Trentino, now in the Museum at Trento, showing a primitive Mithras bullkiller with Cautes upraised, the bust of Luna and an inscription on the lower border…

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief fragment from San Zeno am Nonsberg, Trentino

A coarse-grained yellowish-white marble tauroctony relief fragment found walled in at San Zeno am Nonsberg in the Trentino in 1911, now in the Museum Ferdinandeum at Innsbruck, showing part of Mithras slaying the bull and Cautes raising a flaming torch.

Monumentum

Mithras tauroctony on pottery plate from Trier

Three fragments of a pottery plate bearing a relief of Mithras as bullkiller, with Cautes holding an upraised torch and sickle-shaped object and the bust of Luna above, found in the pottery workshops along the Ziegelstrasse at Augusta Treverorum (modern Trier) in Belgica…

Monumentum

Cautopates fragment on terra-sigillata from Alesia

Five fragments of a red terra-sigillata vessel showing Cautopates with his torch pointing downwards, in Eastern attire and cross-legged, with the hoof of the bull's hindleg before him, found at Alesia (Mont-Auxois) in Lugdunensis.

Monumentum

Small heads in Phrygian caps from Les Bolards

Two small heads in Phrygian caps, possibly belonging to a tauroctony of Mithras, together with a fragment of a bull's foot and the mouth and neck of the dog, found at the Mithraeum of Les Bolards (ancient Venetonimagus) in Lugdunensis.

Monumentum

Limestone tauroctony relief from the Housesteads Mithraeum

A large limestone tauroctony relief in several fragments from the Mithraeum at Borcovicium (modern Housesteads), the vaulted main fragment showing Mithras slaying the bull with Cautes raising his torch beside the bull's foreleg, a crescent of Luna in the upper corner…

Monumentum

Tauroctony lower right from Oltenia

Right lower corner of a marble tauroctony relief from Oltenia, Dacia, preserving the lower portion of Mithras killing the bull.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Oltenia

Limestone tauroctony relief from Oltenia, Dacia, of unknown exact provenance, depicting the standard bull-slaying with the full iconographic programme.

Back to Top