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Tauroctony from Velletri

The Tauroctony found in Velletri, Rome, bears an inscription from its owner and donor.

 
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Tauroctony sculpture of Villa Borghese

This sculpture of Mithras killing the bull, which belongs to the Louvre Museum, is currently on display in Varsovia.

 
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Tauroctony from Monreale

On one of the capitals of the cathedral of Santa Maria Nuova in Monreale, Sicily, an unusual turbaned bull-slaying Mithras has been recorded.

 
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Tauroctony from Aula Gotica

What appears to be a representation of Mithras killing the bull appears in the 12th century frescoes of the Basilica dei Santi Quattro Coronati in Rome.

 
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Tauroctony from St. Andrä vor dem Hagenthale

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

 
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Intaglio with Tauroctony from Munich

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

 
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Intaglio with Tauroctony from The Met

This small magical jasper gem shows Sol in a quadrigra on the recto and Mithras as a bull slayer on the verso.

 
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Tauroctony from Sárkeszi

In this relief found in the Sárkeszi Mithraeum, Cautes and Cautopates hold an Amazon shield.

 
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Tauroctony from Dardagan

The relief of Mithras killing the bull, found near Zvornik in Bosnia and Herzegovina, features some variations on the usual scene.

 
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Intaglio with Tauroctony and Lion with bee

This intaglio portrays Mithra slaying the bull on one side, and a lion with a bee, around seven stars, and inscription, on the other.

 
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Fragment of a Tauroctony from Ostia

This elliptical terracotta fragment from Ostia depicts Mithras as a bullkiller.

 
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Tauroctony from Arshawi-Kibar

This relief of Mithras as bull slayer is surrounded by Cautes and Cautopates with their usual torch plus an oval object.

 
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Tauroctony from Toronto

This relief of Mithras killing the bull is on display at the Royal Ontario Museum.

 
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Tauroctony from Capri

It is not certain that the marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was found on Capri, in the cave of Matromania, where a Mithraeum could have been established.

 
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Tauroctony from Donja Plemenšćina, Pregrada

This primitive relief of Mithras as a bullkiller is signed by a certain Valerius Marcelianus.

 
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Tauroctony from Becker’s collection

The provenance of this fragment of a white marble relief depicting Mithras as a bullkiller is unknown.

 
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Tauroctony from Split

This damage relief of Mithras killing the bull was found walled into a house near Split, Croatia.

 
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Tauroctony from Golubić

This relief of Mithras as a bullkiller was found in Golubić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, near a cementery.

 
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Tauroctony from Ghighen

Vermaseren noted in his Corpus that he had been informed of a fragmented relief of Mithras killing the bull in "the museum at Ghighen".

 
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Altar of Pisignano

This low relief on an altar of Mithras killing the bull was found in a church in Pisignano, south of Ravenna.

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