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  • Monumentum

    Candelabrum of Doryphorus

    This magnificent candelabrum was found in Rome in 1803, in the Syrian Temple of Janicule.

    TNMM682 – CIMRM 508, 509

    Doryphorus pater.
  • 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

    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

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of via di Borgo

    This relief of Mithras Tauroctonos from Rome bears the inscription of three brothers, two of them lions.

    TNMM649 – CIMRM 366, 367

    Deo sancto I(nvicto) M(ithrae) sacrathis (sic) d(onum) p(osuerunt) Placidus Marcellinus leo antis{ti}tes et Guntha leo.
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Aelius Maximus of Turda

    This small relief of Mithras killing the bull was found in 1859 in Turda, in the Cluj region of Romania.

    TNMM668 – CIMRM 1920, 1921

    Ael(ius) Maximus miles / leg(ionis) V Mac(edonicae) v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) p(osuit).
  • 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

    Triptic of Tróia

    The remains of the mithraic triptic of Tróia, Lusitania, were part of a bigger composition.

    TNMM245 – CIMRM 798

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony medallion of Transylvania

    This medallion belongs to a specific category of rounded pieces found in other provinces of the Roman world.

    TNMM430 – CIMRM 2187

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Mithras and Tellus

    This relief of Mithras slaying the bull is unique because of the representation of Tellus lying under the bull.

    TNMM623 – CIMRM 598

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Pisa

    This white marble relief of Mithas killing the sacred bull was found embedded in the building of a noble family in Pisa.

    TNMM604 – CIMRM 663