Monuments: TNMdB

Fragment of an alabaster relief from Cologne with part of a tauroctony scene. Only the tip of Mithras’ Phrygian cap and small narrative details above are preserved.

Roman stone low-relief depicting Mithras as a bull-slayer, with the upper part of his head missing.

The main fresco of the Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere portrays Mithras slaughtering a white bull.

An oval carnelian gem from Carnuntum showing Mithras tauroktonos in a grotto. Sol and Luna appear above, with both torchbearers and a small altar before the bull.

Fragment of a double-sided white marble Mithraic relief from San Zeno, found near the Castello di Tuenno, depicting elements of the tauroctony cycle and bearing a dedication to Deo Invicto Mithrae.

This Mithraic relief of the Danubian type was found in 1940 in the old town of Plovdiv.

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull at Mauls in Gallia cisalpina is a paradigmatic example of the so-called Rhine-type Tauroctony.

This tauroctony relief is distinguished by the rare depiction of Tellus reclining beneath the bull.

White marble relief depicting Mithras killing the bull, found broken in two parts in 1872 near Salita delle Tre Pile in Rome.

Franz Cumont considers the bas relief of Osterburken ’the most remarkable of all the monuments of the cult of Mithras found up to now’.

This fine Roman marble slab of the killing bull of Mithras belongs to a private owner, most recently from Los Angeles, USA.

This Mithras killing the bull belonged to the sculptor V. Pancetti before being exhibited in the Vatican Museums under Pius VI.

Mithras Tauroctony on bronze exposed at the Metropolitan Museum of New York.

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

The relief of Mithras killing the bull of Bologna depicts several scenes of the mithraic myth.