The torchbearers are at work. Expect the occasional flicker while we tend the grotto.
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This limestone tauroctony from Aquincum preserves Mithras slaying the bull together with Cautopates, the serpent, the scorpion, and the legs of the raven.
This weathered limestone statue from the Mithraeum of Apulum depicts a standing figure in Oriental attire holding the head of a bull or ram.
This marble fragment from Roman Dacia preserves part of a tauroctony with Sol, the raven, and Mithras dragging the bull.
This finely carved marble tauroctony from Interamna features an unusual series of altars and ritual vases surrounding the scene.
This statuette of Cautopates from Intercisa shows the torchbearer holding a burning torch and a pelta at his side.
Large intaglio engraved with Mithras as bull slayer surrounded by a peculiar version of Cautes and Cautopates and other celestial deities.
The small medallion depicts three scenes from the life of Mithras, including the Tauroctony. It may come from the Danube area.
The Tauroctony of Nicopolis ad Istrum is unique as it is the only Mithraic stele befitting a Greek donor.
The Tauroctony from Landenburg, Germany, shows a naked Mithras only accompanied by his fellow Cautes.
This relief of Mithras killing the bull includes an unusual owl at the feet of Cautopates and a cock next to Cautes.
This relief of Mithras slaying the bull, framed by acanthus leaves, was sold at auction in 2011 by Bonhams.
This unusual representation of Mithras standing on a bull was kept in the Casino di Villa Altieri sul Monte Esquilino until the 19th century.
This relief of Mithras killing the bull found in Gimmeldingen, Germany, lacks the usual raven.
Two marble statues of Cautes and Cautopates discovered in the Mithraeum of Rusicade, accompanied by symbolic animals including a lion, scorpion, dolphin and bird.
These two altars, erected by a certain Victorinus in the mithraeum he built in his house, bear inscriptions to Cautes and Cautopates.
This Cautopates from Nida carries the usual downward torch in his right hand and a hooked stick in his left.
Beheaded Cautopates in limestone found on the podium of the Jajce Mithraeum, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
This relief of Mithras as a bullkiller found at Vratnitsa, near Lisicici in northern Macedonia, was signed by a certain Menander Aphrodisieus.
In the Tauroctony of Hermopolis, Cautes and Cautopates are placed over two columns at each side of the sacrifice.
The archeologists have found three fragments of the Tauroctony of Lucciana, which includes Cautes and Cautopates.
