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Two-sided relief of Dieburg

The relief of Dieburg shows Mithras riding a horse as main figure, surrounded by several scenes of the myth.

 
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CIMRM 694

Limestone low-relief depicting Cautopates standing cross-legged in eastern dress, accompanied by a bull, flowing water from an overturned jar and a crescent from Bolognia.

 
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Tauroctony from Mauls

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

 
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Votive plaque of Stockstadt

This plaque was found in Mithraeum I at Stockstadt broken into pieces inserted between the blocks of the socle of the cult relief, in the manner of a votive deposit.

 
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CIMRM 1075

Sandstone statue of Cautopates holding two downward-pointing torches, from the Ober-Florstadt Mithraeum.

 
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Tauroctony from the Loggia Scoperta

Currently in the Musei Vaticani, this Tauroctony includes Mithras’s birth restored as Venus anaduomene.

 
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CIMRM 893

Standing stone statuette of Cautopates, the downward-torch bearer, found at Bordeaux and kept in the city’s museum of antiquities (musée d’Aquitaine ?).

 
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Tauroctonia de Walbrook

The image of Mithras killing the bull, found near Walbrook, is surrounded by a Zoadiac circle.

 
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Tauroctony on display in Virginia

Rich relief on display at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art showing Mithras sacrificing the bull accompanied by Cautes and Cautopates.

 
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Tauroctony relief from Şehitkamil (Gaziantep)

New evidence for the cult of Mithras and the religious practices of Legio IV Scythica at the Roman frontier city of Zeugma on the Euphrates.

 
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Frescoes with standing figures of Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte

The frescoes depict several figures dressed in different garments associated with the Mithraic degrees.

 
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Tauroctony from Absalmos

The relief depict several unusual scenes from Mithras’s myth.

 
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Tauroctony from Salita delle Tre Pile

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

 
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Terra sigillata bowl depicting the Mithraic cult meal from Trier

This terra sigillata was found in 1926 in a grave on the Roman cemetery of St. Matthias, Trier. An eyelet indicates that it could have been hung on a wall.

 
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Two-sided relief from Konjic

The mithraic relief of Konjic shows a Tauroctony in one side and a ritual meal in the other.

 
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Tauroctony from Osterburken

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

 
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Tauroctony from Dragus

The tauroctonic relief from Dragus includes a naked flying figure that Vermaseren has identified as Phosporus or Lucifer.

 
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Cautopates of Sidon

Cautopates sculpture of Sidon features a snake near his left leg.

 
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Tauroctony from Ottaviano Zeno

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.

 
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Cautopates de Bordeaux

The Cautopates of Bordeaux stands as usual with his legs crossed and arms down.

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