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Monumentum

Tauroctony exhibited at the Cincinnati Art Museum
In the tauroctonic relief on display at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Mithras slaughters the bull over a rocky background.
TNMM336
Monumentum

Tauroctony of the Mitreo delle terme di Mitra
The person who commanded the sculpture may have been M. Umbilius Criton, documented in the Mitreo della Planta Pedis.
TNMM108 – CIMRM 230, 231
Κρίτων / Ἀθηναιος / έποίει.
Monumentum

Mithras carrying the bull
Sculpture depicting Mithras carrying a young bull on his shoulders.
TNMM158 – CIMRM 77
Monumentum

Tauroctony relief exposed at the Hermitage Museum
The relief marble of Mithras sacrifying the bull, exposed on the Hermitage Museum comes from Rome.
TNMM308 – CIMRM 603, 604
D(onum) deo invicto d(ederunt) / Marci Matti / Fortuna/tus / et Alexander / et Pardus / et Eficax / per Fl(avio) Alexandro patre.
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Sarrebourg
The Tauroctony of Saarbourg (Sarrebourg, ancient Pons Sarravi), France, contains most of Mithras deeds known in a single relief.
TNMM114 – CIMRM 966, 967
In h(onorem) d(omus) d(ivinae) deo inv[ict]o Marceleus Marianus / d(e) / s(uo) p(osuit)
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Aigio
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
Soli invic/to milites/ ..... uist/ .... esarcus
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Symphorus and Marcus from Aquincum
This sculpture of Mithras killing the sacred bull bears an inscription that mentions the donors.
TNMM526 – CIMRM 1768, 1769
[Sy]mphorus et M(arcus).
Monumentum

Tauroctony relief of Carnuntum
This relief found at Carnuntum represents Mithras slaughtering the bull, without the scorpion, in the sacred cave.
TNMM523
Monumentum

Cautes with bull head of Sarmizegetusa
This sculpture of Cautes holding a bull's head was found in 1882 in Sarmizegetusa, Romania.
TNMM522 – CIMRM 2122, 2123
V(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito).
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Aquileia
The relief of the Mithraic tauroctony of Aquiliea is currently on display in Vienna.
TNMM154 – CIMRM 736