Mithraic monuments including relief

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Mithras and Sol share a sacred meal accompanied by Cautes and Cautopates on a relief found in a cemetery from Croatia...

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The lion relief from Nemrut Dag has the moon and several stars over his body.

Πυρόεις Ηρακλέους, στίλβων Απόλλωνος, Φαέθων Δίος

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In the Tauroctony of Hermopolis, Cautes and Cautopates are placed over two columns at each side of the sacrifice.

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This mithraic communion from Mérida shows three persons at table with other people standing besides, one of them with a bull's head on a plate.

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The main relief of Mithras killing the bull from the Mithraeum of Dura Europos includes three persons named Zenobius, Jariboles and Barnaadath.

Θεοῦ (sic) Μίθραν ἐπόησεν Ζηνόβιος ὁ καὶ Εἰαειβᾶς Ἰαριβωλέους / στρατεγὸς τοξοτῶν ἔτους δευτέρου πυ̕.

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A naked Sol leans over his fellow Mithras while raising his drinking-horn (rhyton) during the sacred feast.

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The Tauroctony from Landerburg, Germany, shows a naked Mithras only accompanied by his fellow Cautes.

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A serpent emerging from a umbilicus at the side of the stele coils over Mithras naked body.

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The mithraic relief of Baris, current Turkey, depicts a proto version of the Tauroctony with a winged Mithras surrounded by two Victories.

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Several elements, such as the snake, scorpion or dog, are missing from this tauroctony relief of Cluj.

Monuments including: relief