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  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Gimmeldingen

    This relief of Mithras killing the bull found in Gimmeldingen, Germany, lacks the usual raven.

    TNMM693 – CIMRM 1314

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Donja Plemenšćina, Pregrada

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

    TNMM709 – CIMRM 1468, 1469

    I(nvicto) d(eo) O(mnipotenti) Val(erius) Marceli/anus ex voto l(ibens) l(aetus) p(osuit).
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Becker’s collection

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

    TNMM704 – CIMRM 13

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Split

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

    TNMM702 – CIMRM 1859

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Vratnitsa

    This relief of Mithras as a bullkiller found at Vratnitsa, near Lisicici in northern Macedonia, was signed by a certain Menander Aphrodisieus.

    TNMM701 – CIMRM 1893, 1894

    L(ucius) Antonius Menander Aphro/disieus invicto / aug(usto) v(otum) f(ecit).
  • Monumentum

    Candelabrum of Doryphorus

    This magnificent candelabrum was found in Rome in 1803, in the Syrian Temple of Janicule.

    TNMM682 – CIMRM 508, 509

    Doryphorus pater.
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Chrestos

    This relief of Mithras killing the bull, signed by a certain Χρῆστος, is on display in the Sala dei Animali of the Vatican Museum.

    TNMM673 – CIMRM 554, 555

    Χρῆστος πατὴρ καὶ Γαῦρος ἐποίησαν.
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony relief found between Porta Portese and St Pancrace

    Franz Cumont bought this relief of Mithras as a bullkiller from a dealer who claimed to have found it in a vineyard near the church of Saint Pancrace, in Rome.

    TNMM671 – CIMRM 585

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Villa Borghese

    This is one of the three reliefs of Mithras as a bullkiller from the Villa Borghese collection that belong to the Louvre museum, now in the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

    TNMM669 – CIMRM 588

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Aelius Maximus of Turda

    This small relief of Mithras killing the bull was found in 1859 in Turda, in the Cluj region of Romania.

    TNMM668 – CIMRM 1920, 1921

    Ael(ius) Maximus miles / leg(ionis) V Mac(edonicae) v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) p(osuit).