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Monumentum

Tauroctony of Capri
It is not certain that the marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was found on Capri, in the cave of Matromania, where a Mithraeum could have been established.
TNMM715 – CIMRM 172
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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
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Tauroctony on display in Boston
This fragmentary relief depicts Mithras killing the bull in the usual manner, remarkably dressed in oriental attire.
TNMM539 – CIMRM 607
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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.
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Tauroctony of Euhemerus from Alba Iulia
Several authors read the name Suaemedus instead of Euhemerus as the author of this mithraic relief from Alba Iulia, Romania.
TNMM663 – CIMRM 1975, 1976
Deo invicto Mithr(a)e / Euhemerus ex voto / posuit.
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Tauroctony of Târgușor
This limestone relief of Mithras killing the bull bears an inscription by a certain Flavius Horimos, consecrated in a 'secret forest' in Moesia.
TNMM641 – CIMRM 2306, 2307
Ὣριμος / πατὴ/ρ ἀνέ/θηκε/ν. Φλ(άουιος) Ὣριμος Φλ(αουίου) Μακέδονος οἰκονόμος κατ᾽ ἐπιταγήν / θεῷ ἀνεικήτῳ �…
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Tauroctony of Osterburken
Franz Cumont considers the bas relief of Osterburken 'the most remarkable of all the monuments of the cult of Mithras found up to now'.
TNMM176 – CIMRM 1292, 1293
D[eo] S[oli] I[nvicto] M[ithrae] M[er?]catorius Castrensis in suo cons[ituit].
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Tauroctony relief from Ladenburg
The Tauroctony from Landerburg, Germany, shows a naked Mithras only accompanied by his fellow Cautes.
TNMM290 – CIMRM 1275
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Tauroctony of Mauls
The relief of Mithras slaying the bull at Mauls in Gallia cisalpina is a paradigmatic example of the so-called Rhine-type Tauroctony.
TNMM476 – CIMRM 1400
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Dedication inscription from Koenigshoffen Mithraeum
The inscription reports the restoration of the coloured painting of the main relief of the Mithraeum by a veteran of the Legio VIII Augusta.
TNMM253 – CIMRM 1361
In h(onorem) d(omus) d(ivinae) deo Invic/to M(ithrae) C(aius) Celsinius / Matutinus veter(anus) / leg(ionis) VIII Aug(ustae) Alexan/drianae typum / de suo repinx(it)