The New Mithraeum Database

This fragmentary relief shows Cautopates bordered by three of the six zodiacal signs with which He is associated: Capricorn, Sagittarius and Scorpio.

TNMM545

In the tauroctonic relief on display at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Mithras slaughters the bull over a rocky background.

TNMM336

The lion-headed god is standing on a globe encicled by two crossed bands on which five pearls.

TNMM322 – CIMRM 543

The Tauroctony of Patras was found years before the temple over which the relief of Mithras sacrificing the bull was supposed to preside.

TNMM361 – CIMRM 2351, 2352

The relief of the Mithraic tauroctony of Aquiliea is currently on display in Vienna.

TNMM154 – CIMRM 736

The marble relief of Mithras killing the bull in Naples bears an inscription that calls the solar god omnipotentis.

TNMM464 – CIMRM 174, 175

The round relief of Mithras killing the bull of Split is surrounded by a circle with Sun, Moon, Saturn and some unusual animals.

TNMM367 – CIMRM 1861

This relief was found under the Palazzo Montecitorio, in Rome, and bought by the Liebighaus at Frankfort.

TNMM256 – CIMRM 430

The marble shows Mithras slaying the bull, on one side, and Sol and Mithras feasting on a bull skin, on the other.

TNMM151 – CIMRM 641

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull of Sisak includes the zodiac and multiple scenes from the myth of Mithras.

TNMM366 – CIMRM 1472