The torchbearers are at work. Expect the occasional flicker while we tend the grotto.
This weathered marble fragment from Viminacium preserves part of a tauroctony with Luna, Cautopates, the serpent, and the dog.
These six marble fragments from the Second Mithraeum of Poetovio preserve parts of tauroctonies together with figures of Sol, Cautes, and Cautopates.
This marble fragment from Apulum preserves the head of Mithras beneath an arch together with a raven and the remains of Sol’s radiate crown.
This small weathered marble fragment preserves part of a tauroctony with Cautes, Luna, the serpent, and a leaping dog.
This small marble fragment preserves the crossed legs of a torchbearer, probably Cautopates, beside the hoof of the bull and the foot of Mithras.
This marble fragment from Roman Dacia preserves part of a tauroctony with Sol, the raven, and Mithras dragging the bull.
This stele found at the foot of the Aventine bears an inscription of Kastos father and son, and mentions several syndexioi who shared the same temple.
This monument has been identified from ’Memorie di varie antichità trovate in diversi luoghi della città di Roma’, a book by Flaminio Vacca of 1594.
These two parallel altars to the diophores were dedicated by the Pater and a Leo from the Mithraeum of S. Stefano Rotondo.
This marble head of Mithras was found in the Luxemburgerstrasze in Cologne, Germany.
The small medallion depicts three scenes from the life of Mithras, including the Tauroctony. It may come from the Danube area.
Marble relief, probably found in Rome during the construction of the Palazzo Primoli along the Via Zanardelli.
This fragment of a double relief shows a tauroctony on one side and the sacred meal, including a serving Corax, on the other.
The Tauroctony of Nicopolis ad Istrum is unique as it is the only Mithraic stele befitting a Greek donor.
This relief of Mithras killing the bull was dedicated by the bearer of the imperial standard of Legio XIII Gemina, Marcus Ulpius Linus.
This marble relief depicting Mithras as a bull-slayer was once owned by Major Holzhausen and Franz Cumont and is now housed at the Belgian Academy.
This marble relief depicting Mithras as a bull slayer was found in the back room of the Mithraeum of the Circus Maximus.
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.
Fragments of a marble relief of Sol, which probably served as a fenster.
The statue of Skikda has seven holes in his hair for fastening rays.
