Mithraic monuments including serpens

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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...

Croatia

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Terra sigillata bowl depicting the Mithraic cult meal from Trier

This terra sigillata was found in 1926 in a grave on the Roman cemetery of St. Matthias, Trier. An eyelet indicates that it could have been hung on a wall.

Germany

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Tauroctony from Hermopolis

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

Egypt

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Main Tauroctony relief from Dura Europos

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

Syria

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

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Tauroctony from Albacini

This black marble of Mithras killing the Bull has belonged to the sculptor Carlo Albacini.

Italy

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Tauroctony relief from Ladenburg

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

Germany

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Mithras rock-born of Septeuil

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

France

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Mithras hunting from Dura Europos

In this fresco from Dura Europas, Mithras hunts accompanied by the lion and the serpent.

Syria

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Tauroctony exposed at Princeton

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

Italy

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Intaglio ring with Tauroctony

The bague depicting Mithras killing the bull is preserved at the Bibliothèque national de France.

Monuments including: serpens

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