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Monumentum

Altar by Hermanio of Poetovio
A certain Hermanio has been identified in the dedication of several monuments in different cities in Dacia and even in Rome.
TNMM581
Cauti // pro salute Fl(avi) / Hermadionis / et Aviti Syriac(i) / et filiorum / Felix libert(us)
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Mithras triumphant over the Sun
Fresco du Mithraeum de Hawarte, Syria, depicts Mithras' victory over the Sun.
TNMM222
Monumentum

Mitra de Cabra
The Mithras of Cabra is the only full preserved Tauroctony sculpture found in Spain yet.
TNMM136 – CIMRM 771
Monumentum

Tauroctonia del Cortile del Belvedere
White marble relief depicting Mithras slaying the bull, dedicated by Atimetus.
TNMM210 – CIMRM 546, 547
Soli invicto deo / Atimetus Aug(ustorum) n(ostrorum) ser(vus) act(uarius) praediorum Romaniarorum.
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Santa Maria Capua Vetere
The main fresco of the Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere portrays Mithras slaughtering a white bull.
TNMM169 – CIMRM 181
Monumentum

Mithras taurophorus of Ptuj
The sculpture of Mithras carrying the bull includes an inscription on its base.
TNMM316 – CIMRM 1494, 1495
Transitu / C(aius) Caecina / Calpurnius / temp(lum) redemi(t) et restitu(it).
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Altar with inscription and symbolic figures from Ptuj
This altar from Ptuj, present-day Poetovio, is decorated with various Mithraic animals such as a tortoise, a cock and a crow and other objects.
TNMM413 – CIMRM 1496, 1497
Invict(o) Mithrae / et Transitu dei / Theodorus p(ublici) p(ortorii) / scrut(ator) stat(ionis) Poet(ovionensis) / ex visu.
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Tauroctony on altar of Ptuj
Remarkable fragmentary sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull on an inscribed altar found in Mithraeum III at Ptuj.
TNMM564 – CIMRM 1589, 1590
D(eo) S(oli) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / pro (sa) salute /canaliclari / et actariorum /et codicarior(um) / et librariorum / leg(ionum) V M(acedonicae) et XIII g(eminae) / Gallienarum.
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Fellbach
This relief of Mithras killing the bull, now on display in Stuttgart, includes a small altar with a sacrificial knife and an oil lamp.
TNMM563
Monumentum

Antiochus I shakes hands with Mithras
Antiochus I of Commagene shakes Mithras hands in this relief from the Nemrut Dagi temple.
TNMM134 – CIMRM 30