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  • Monumentum

    Aion of Vienne

    The relief of Aion from Vienne includes a naked youth in Phrygian cap holding the reins of a horse.

    TNMM265 – CIMRM 902

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Alba Iulia with collared dog

    This relief of Mithras killing the bull from Apulum, now Alba Iulia, Romania, contains several scenes from the Mithras legend.

    TNMM664 – CIMRM 1972

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Plovdiv

    This Mithraic relief of the Danubian type was found in 1940 in the old town of Plovdiv.

    TNMM632 – CIMRM 2338

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony from the Mithräum von Heddernheim

    This relief is so well-known that it has been reproduced in nearly every handbook of archaeology and of history of religions.

    TNMM198 – CIMRM 1083

  • Monumentum

    First Tauroctony relief of Dura Europos

    One of the reliefs of the Dura Europos tauroctonies includes several characters with their respective names.

    TNMM179 – CIMRM 37, 38

    Ἔθφανει ἰστρατηγα
  • 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

    Head of Mithras from Santo Stefano Rotondo

    The head was part of a stucco relief of the Tauroctony found under the church of Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome

    TNMM165

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctonia de Carnuntum (III ?)

    Of this great relief of Mithras slaying the bull only a few segments remain.

    TNMM192 – CIMRM 1683

    T(itus) Fl(avius) Viato[r] condi fe(cit)
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of the Cortile del Belvedere

    The Tauroctony relief of Mithras killing the bull walled in the Cortile of the Belvedered, Vatican City, was found by Fagan near Ostia.

    TNMM363 – CIMRM 321

  • Monumentum

    Petrogeny with a sheaf of wheat of Cologne

    In this relief of the rock birth of Mithras, the child sun god holds a bundle of wheat in his left hand instead of the usual torch.

    TNMM728