The New Mithraeum Database

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

TNMM116 – CIMRM 312, 313

This marble relief depicting Mithras killing the bull, found at Porto d’Anzio in 1699 and now lost, is known from a engraving by del Torre.

TNMM908 – CIMRM 204

This sculpture of Mithras being born from a rock is unique in the position of the hands, one on his head, the other on the rock.

TNMM761 – CIMRM 1111

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 relief of Mithras killing the bull includes various singular features specific to the Danubian area.

TNMM797 – CIMRM 1973

This remarkable Greek marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was discovered in 1705 and remained in private collections until it was bought by the Louvre.

TNMM793 – CIMRM 408, 409

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this relief of Mithras as bull slayer, recorded in 1562 in the collection of A. Magarozzi, Cautes and Cautopates have been replaced by trees still bearing the torches.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

On one of the capitals of the cathedral of Santa Maria Nuova in Monreale, Sicily, an unusual turbaned bull-slaying Mithras has been recorded.

TNMM764

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

TNMM705 – CIMRM 2185

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