Monuments: TNMdB

The Mithraic vase from Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium in Germany includes Sol-Mithras between Cautes and Cautopates, as well as a serpent, a lion and seven stars.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The votive image was donated by a certain Verus for a mithraeum which was probably located in the hinterland of the Limes.

This heliotrope gem, depicting Mithras slaying the bull, dates from the 2nd-3rd century, but was reused as an amulet in the 13th century.

This sandsotne head with a Phrygian, found in Fürth in 1730, probably belonged to a torach-bearer.