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Monuments tagged with tauroctonia

Mithraic monuments, temples and other objects related to Mithras and tagged with tauroctonia.

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    Tauroctony of Aelius Hylas from Doştat

    This monument bears an inscription by a certain Lucius Aelius Hylas, in which he associates Sol Invictus with Jupiter.

    TNMM642 – CIMRM 2006, 2007

    From Romania

    Io(vi) S(oli) invi(cto) / deo genitori / r(upe) n(ato). L. Aeli(us) Hylas (vicesimarius) l(ibertus) pr(o) sa(lute) et Horientis (sic) fil(ii) sui et Apuleia(e) eius signum numinis cum absidata / ex...
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    Tauroctony of Târgușor

    This limestone relief of Mithras killing the bull bears an inscription by a certain Flavius Horimos, consecrated in a 'secret forest' in Moesia.

    TNMM641 – CIMRM 2306, 2307

    From Romania

    Ὣριμος / πατὴ/ρ ἀνέ/θηκε/ν. Φλ(άουιος) Ὣριμος Φλ(αουίου) Μακέδονος οἰκονόμος κατ᾽ ἐπιταγήν / θεῷ ἀνεικήτῳ...
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    Tauroctony of Euthices from Apulum

    This marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was made by a freedman who dedicated it to his old masters.

    TNMM638 – CIMRM 1935, 1936

    From Romania

    D(eo) S(oli) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / [pro salute et incolumi]tate M. Aurelii Timothei et Aur(elii) Maximii / [votum nuncupavit sol]vitq(ue) Euthices eorum l[ib(ertus)].
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    Fragmented tauroctony of Dormagen

    This second tauroctony, found in the Mithraeum of Dormagen, was consecrated by a man of Thracian origin.

    TNMM633 – CIMRM 1014, 1015

    From Germany

    Deo Soli I(nvicto) M(ithrae) p(ro) s(alute) Th(?)urat(?)r(?)[al]is Didil[ae f(ilius)] / dup[l(arius)] al(a)e Noricorum ci[vis T(h)rax v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito)]
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    Tauroctony of Dormagen CIMRM 1012

    The sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull found in Dormagen is exposed at Bonn Landesmuseum.

    TNMM264 – CIMRM 1012, 1013

    From Germany

    D(eo) S(oli) i(nvicto) imp(erio) C. Amandinius / Verus buc(inator) v(otum) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito).
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    Tauroctony of Plovdiv

    This Mithraic relief of the Danubian type was found in 1940 in the old town of Plovdiv.

    TNMM632 – CIMRM 2338

    From Bulgaria

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    Tauroctony relief of Sidon

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

    TNMM142 – CIMRM 75

    From Lebanon

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    Tauroctony medallion of Transylvania

    This medallion belongs to a specific category of rounded pieces found in other provinces of the Roman world.

    TNMM430 – CIMRM 2187

    From Romania

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    Tauroctony medallion of Egypt

    This tauroctony may have come from Hermopolis and its style suggests a Thraco-Danubian origin.

    TNMM431 – CIMRM 105

    From Egypt

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    Two Mithras-Attis terracotta from Kerch

    Terracotta tablets depicting a Taurombolium by Attis which might be at the origins of the mithraic Tauroctony iconography.

    TNMM272 – CIMRM 11, 12

    From Ukraine