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  • Monumentum

    Mithraic vignettes of Ptuj

    These fragments of a cult relief of Mithras were found at the Mithraeum II of Ptuj, Slovenia.

    TNMM680 – CIMRM 1510

  • Monumentum

    Mithraic vignettes of Besigheim

    These two fragments of a sandstone relief were walled into a house on the market square in Besigheim.

    TNMM679 – CIMRM 1301

  • Monumentum

    Mithras head of Arles

    This head of Italian marble, found at Arles, probably belongs to a sculpure of Mithras.

    TNMM677 – CIMRM 881

  • Monumentum

    Cautopates de Bordeaux

    The Cautopates of Bordeaux stands as usual with his legs crossed and arms down.

    TNMM139 – CIMRM 893

  • Monumentum

    Altar of Pisignano

    This low relief on an altar of Mithras killing the bull was found in a church in Pisignano, south of Ravenna.

    TNMM675 – CIMRM 692

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony in Copenhagen

    This statue of Mithras as a bullkiller was bought at Rome where it might be found.

    TNMM674 – CIMRM 596

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony sculpture in the Sala dei Animali

    This Mithras killing the bull belonged to the sculptor V. Pancetti before being exhibited in the Vatican Museums under Pius VI.

    TNMM208 – CIMRM 548

  • 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 of Villa Borghese

    This is one of the three reliefs depicting Mithras killing the bull that the Louvre Museum acquired from the Roman Villa Borghese collection.

    TNMM672 – CIMRM 586

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    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