Monuments: TNMdB

This sculpture of Mithras killing the bull was dedicated to the ’incomprehensible god’ by a certain priest called Gaius Valerius Heracles.

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

Fragment of a greyish marble relief depicting Mithras slaying the bull beneath a rocky grotto.

Fragment of a marble relief (H. 0.27 Br. 0.38 D. 0.045).

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

In this terracotta relief depicting Mithras as a bull killer found at Cales, now in Calvi Risorta, none of the usual accompanying animals is present.

Second terracotta tablet found at Calvi depicting Mithras killing the bull, now at Berlin, Antiquarium.

Relief possibly depicting Mithras-Men holding a torch and a a bust of Luna on a crescent.

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.

This fresco, found in the Santa Capua Vetere Mithraeum, depicts what seems to be an initiate falling forward because someone is pressing down on his shoulders.

This sculpture of Mithras being born from a rock is unique in the position of the hands, one on his head, the other on the rock.

This sculpture of Cautes holding a bull’s head was found in 1882 in Sarmizegetusa, Romania.

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

This unusual bronze bust of Sabazios features multiple symbolic elements, with Mithras depicted in his characteristic pose of slaying the bull, positioned just below Sabazios’ chest.

The Mühltal Mithraic crater was discovered among the artefacts of a mithraeum found in Pfaffenhoffen am Inn, Bavaria.

These fragments of a monumental relief of Mithras killing the bull from Koenigshoffen were reassembled and are now on display at the Musée Archéologique de Strasbourg.

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

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

This relief of Mithras killing the bull includes various singular features specific to the Danubian area.