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The New Mithraeum Database

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Tauroctony of 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 of Symphorus and Marcus from Aquincum

This sculpture of Mithras killing the sacred bull bears an inscription that mentions the donors.

 
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Tauroctony relief of Carnuntum

This relief found at Carnuntum represents Mithras slaughtering the bull, without the scorpion, in the sacred cave.

 
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Tauroctony of Macerata

The Macerata Tauroctony shows Mithra slaying the bull with the usual Pyrigian cap and six rays around his head.

 
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Tauroctony relief of Sarmizegetusa

This relief of Mithras slaying the bull incorporates the scene of the god carrying the bull and its birth from a rock.

 
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Round Tauroctony of Split

The round relief of Mithras killing the bull of Split is surrounded by a circle with Sun, Moon, Saturn and some unusual animals.

 
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Aion of Mérida

The Aion-Chronos of Mérida was found near the bullring of the current city, once capital of the Roman province Hispania Ulterior.

 
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Tauroctony from Domus del Mitreo of Tarquinia

Votive sculpture of Mithras sacrificing the bull from the Mithraeum of Tarquinia.

 
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Tauroctony from Vermaseren's private collection

Maarten Vermaseren acquired this rosso antico marble of Mithras slaying the bull in 1961.

 
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Mithras sacrificing the bull at Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Tauroctony in black marble on display at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California.

 
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Tauroctony from the Mithraeum III of Nida

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull from Nida's Mithraeum III was found in two pieces in 1887, destroyed during an air raid on Frankfurt in 1944, and restored in 1986.

 
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Tauroctony in the British Museum

The sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull was transported from Rome to London by Charles Standish in 1815.

 
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Tauroctony bronze of Szőny

Szony's bronze plate shows Mithra slaying the bull and the seven planets with attributes at the bottom of the composition.

 
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Two-sided relief of Fiano Romano

The marble shows Mithras slaying the bull, on one side, and Sol and Mithras feasting on a bull skin, on the other.

 
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Tauroctony of Sisak

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull of Sisak includes the zodiac and multiple scenes from the myth of Mithras.

 
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Mithras tauroctonus and taurophorus vessel from Lanuvium

The red ceramic vessel from Lanuvium shows Mithra carrying the bull, followed by the dog, and the Tauroctony on the opposite side.

 
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Tauroctony of 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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Tarouctony of the Palazzo San Marco

This sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull was bequeathed to the Republic of Venice in 1793 by Ambassador Girolamo Zulian.

 
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Tauroctony relief of the Esquiline

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull found on the Esquiline Hill includes two additional scenes with Mithras and two other figures.

 
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Tauroctonia de Carnuntum (III ?)

Of this great relief of Mithras slaying the bull only a few segments remain.

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