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    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

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    Relief de Bourg-Saint-Andéol

    The low relief of Bourg-Saint-Andéol depicting Mithras killing the bull has been chiseled on the rock.

    TNMM129 – CIMRM 896, 897

    Num[ini] . . . . V . . | deum Invictum | T Fur(ius) Iu[stus?] d(e) s(ua) p(ecunia) f(ecit).
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    Bronze medallion from Gordian III with tauroctony

    The bronze medallion, from Cilicia, shows Mithras Tauroctonus on the revers.

    TNMM274 – CIMRM 27

    Τάρσου μητροπόλεως. Α(ύτονόυ) μ(ητρόπόλεως) Κ(ιλιχίας) γ(ράμματι) β(ουλής).
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    Two-sided relief from Rückingen

    This remarkable double-sided relief depicts the myth of Mithras and the Tauroctony on one side, and a scene of Mithras the hunter and the banquet of Mithras and the Sol on the other.

    TNMM552 – CIMRM 1137

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    Intaglio with Mithras and Kabiros

    This intaglio with Mithras killing the bull on one side and Kabiros on the other was probably used as a magical amulet.

    TNMM551 – CIMRM 2366

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    Intaglio of chalcedony at the BnF

    This intaglio depicting Mithras killing the bull is preserved at the Bibliothèque national de France.

    TNMM279

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    Intaglio of Mithras Tauroctonus at the Walters Art Museum

    This ancient carnelian intaglio mounted in gold depicts Mithras slaying the bull surrounded by his companions Cautes and Cautopates.

    TNMM543 – CIMRM 2367

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    Tauroctony on display in Princeton

    This sculpture of Mithras killing the bull may come from Rome, probably found in 1919.

    TNMM282 – CIMRM 605

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    Monumentum

    Tauroctony on displya at the Getty Museum

    This fragmentary scupture of Mithras killing the bull belongs to the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA.

    TNMM538

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    Tauroctony on display in Virginia

    Rich relief on display at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art showing Mithras sacrificing the bull accompanied by Cautes and Cautopates.

    TNMM540