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Double-sided marble relief fragment from San Zeno

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.

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Tauroctony from Plovdiv

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

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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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Marble tauroctony relief in the Froehner Collection

White marble relief depicting Mithras as bull-slayer in a grotto from the Froehner collection, now in the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris.

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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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Terracotta krater from the Friedberg Mithraeum

Terracotta krater from the southern part of the Friedberg Mithraeum, discovered in 1849. The vessel is decorated in relief with serpents, a scorpion and a ladder-like motif.

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Tauroctony medallion of Egypt

This tauroctony may have come from Hermopolis and its style suggests a Thraco-Danubian origin.

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Sandstone tauroctony relief from Petronell-Carnuntum

Sandstone relief of Mithras as bull-slayer, found at Petronell in 1932, with dog, serpent and scorpion, traces of polychromy preserved, now in the Museum Carnuntinum.

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Fragmentary tauroctony relief from Rome

Fragmentary relief corner depicting Mithras as bull-slayer, preserving the bull’s hindquarters, scorpion, serpent and part of a torchbearer, with a partial inscription.

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Tauroctony from Mithras and Tellus

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

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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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Relief of Aion-Phanes

The Aion / Phanes relief, currently on display in the Gallerie Estensi, Moneda, is associated with two Eastern mysteric religions: Mithraism and Orphism.

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Fragmentary marble relief from Rome

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

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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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Tauroctony from Gérman

This very fine relief of Mithras killing the bull was discovered in 2014 in Germán, near Sofia, Bulgaria, and is now housed in the Sofia History Museum.

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Mithraic vase of Mühltal

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

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Tauroctony from Strasbourg

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.

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