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Monumentum

Relief de Bourg-Saint-Andéol
The low relief of Bourg-Saint-Andéol depicting Mithras killing the bull has been chiseled on the rock.
TNMM129 – CIMRM 896, 897
Num[ini] . . . . V . . | deum Invictum | T Fur(ius) Iu[stus?] d(e) s(ua) p(ecunia) f(ecit).
Monumentum

Medallions with Mithras from Trapezus
These bronze medallions associates the image of several Roman emperors with that of Mithras, usually as a rider, in the province Pontus.
TNMM553
Monumentum

Two-sided relief from Rückingen
This remarkable double-sided relief depicts the myth of Mithras and the Tauroctony on one side, and a scene of Mithras the hunter and the banquet of Mithras and the Sol on the other.
TNMM552 – CIMRM 1137
Monumentum

Intaglio with Mithras and Kabiros
This intaglio with Mithras killing the bull on one side and Kabiros on the other was probably used as a magical amulet.
TNMM551 – CIMRM 2366
Monumentum

Intaglio of chalcedony at the BnF
This intaglio depicting Mithras killing the bull is preserved at the Bibliothèque national de France.
TNMM279
Monumentum

Intaglio of Mithras Tauroctonus at the Walters Art Museum
This ancient carnelian intaglio mounted in gold depicts Mithras slaying the bull surrounded by his companions Cautes and Cautopates.
TNMM543 – CIMRM 2367
Monumentum

Bronze plaque of Mithras slaying the bull
Mithras Tauroctony on bronze exposed at the Metropolitan Museum of New York.
TNMM137
Monumentum

Tauroctonia de Walbrook
The image of Mithras killing the bull, found near Walbrook, is surrounded by a Zoadiac circle.
TNMM120 – CIMRM 810, 811
Ulpius Silvanus / factis Arausione / emeritus leg(ionis) II aug(ustae) / votum solvit.
Monumentum

Tauroctony stele of Nicopolis ad Istrum
The Tauroctony of Nicopolis ad Istrum is unique as it is the only Mithraic stele befitting a Greek donor.
TNMM341 – CIMRM 2264, 2265
Ἀγαθῆι τύχηι. Ἡλίῳ | Μίθρᾳ | θεῷ | ἐπηκόῳ || Αὐρ(ήλιος) | Μᾶρκος | γναφεὺς | τὸ συήλιον | σὺν τῇ || ζωγραφίᾳ | κ…
Monumentum

Frescoes of 'Magis' from Dura Europos
Some scholars have speculated that the scrolls both figures hold in their hands represent Eastern doctrines brought to the Western world.
TNMM372 – CIMRM 44