Monuments: TNMdB

Rock-cut tauroctony forming the cult image of Mithraeum I at Doliche, later deliberately defaced by Christian iconoclasts.

The tauroctony relief of Sidon depicts the signs of the zodiac and the four seasons, among other familiar features.

Marble tauroctony relief from Ozd (Magyarózd), attesting a rural Mithraic presence in the interior of Roman Dacia Superior.

Relief showing Mithras slaying the bull, found at Paks in Roman Pannonia, modern-day Hungary.

Fragmentary Mithraic relief from Ratiaria depicting the tauroctony above a series of narrative scenes from the myth of Mithras and Sol.

Black polished cone-shaped prehistoric axe from Argolis, now in the Athens National Museum, interpreted by some scholars as having Mithraic votive associations.

Carved directly into the rock of the Rožanec sanctuary, this tauroctony relief preserves an unusually complete composition.

This is the earliest sculpture of Mithras killing the bull known to date.

Silver belt fitting with Mithras tauroctony and aristocratic hunting horsemen, fourth century AD.

White marble tauroctony relief in several fragments from the Mithraeum at Biljanovac, Moesia Superior, depicting the standard bull-slaying with the full iconographic programme.

Amethyst intaglio engraved with Mithras slaying the bull, accompanied by Sol, Luna and other canonical Mithraic symbols.

Fragmentary tauroctony preserving Mithras, the torchbearers, Sol and Luna from the sanctuary at Aïtodor.

Small surviving fragment depicting Mithras as bull-slayer together with the torchbearer Cautes.

Scene from a bull-slaying relief preserving the dagger of Mithras, the dog and the raised torch of Cautes.

Tauroctony relief fragment with torchbearer and scene of Mithras’ rockbirth from Romula, Romania.

One of the reliefs of the Dura Europos tauroctonies includes several characters with their respective names.

The sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull was transported from Rome to London by Charles Standish in 1815.

These six marble fragments from the Second Mithraeum of Poetovio preserve parts of tauroctonies together with figures of Sol, Cautes, and Cautopates.

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.