The torchbearers are at work. Expect the occasional flicker while we tend the grotto.
The sculpture of Mithras rock-birth from Santo Stefano Rotondo bears an inscription of Aurelius Bassinus, curator of the cult.
This relief of Mithras slaying the bull incorporates the scene of the god carrying the bull and its birth from a rock.
The round relief of Mithras killing the bull of Split is surrounded by a circle with Sun, Moon, Saturn and some unusual animals.
The Aion-Chronos of Mérida was found near the bullring of the current city, once capital of the Roman province Hispania Ulterior.
Maarten Vermaseren acquired this rosso antico marble of Mithras slaying the bull in 1961.
Tauroctony in black marble on display at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California.
This marble relief was found in a Mithraeum in Ptuj.
The marble shows Mithras slaying the bull, on one side, and Sol and Mithras feasting on a bull skin, on the other.
The head of Serapis found at Walbrook, London, is decorated with stylised olive branches.
Relief of Heracles/Hercules capturing the Golden Hind of Artemis.
This small altar found in Rome depicts the god Sol with five rays around his head.
The intarsium of Sol found in the Mithraeum of Santa Prisca is composed of several varieties of marble.
The Tauroctony relief of Mithras killing the bull walled in the Cortile of the Belvedered, Vatican City, was found by Fagan near Ostia.
This sculpture of Mithras sacrificing the bull was found in the Quirinal and is now on display in the Musei Capitolini.
The marble Tauroctony of Asciano, Siena, was donated by Franz Cumont to the Academia Belgica, Rome.
