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The New Mithraeum Database tagged with cautopates

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

Your search cautopates gave 126 results.

 
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony relief found between Porta Portese and St Pancrace

    Franz Cumont bought this relief of Mithras as a bullkiller from a dealer who claimed to have found it in a vineyard near the church of Saint Pancrace, in Rome.

    TNMM671 – CIMRM 585

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Aelius Maximus of Turda

    This small relief of Mithras killing the bull was found in 1859 in Turda, in the Cluj region of Romania.

    TNMM668 – CIMRM 1920, 1921

    Ael(ius) Maximus miles / leg(ionis) V Mac(edonicae) v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) p(osuit).
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony from Cluj

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

    TNMM280 – CIMRM 2025

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Palermo

    The assumed find-place of the Mithras Tauroctonus of Palermo is uncertain.

    TNMM150 – CIMRM 164

  • Monumentum

    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

    Ὣριμος / πατὴ/ρ ἀνέ/θηκε/ν. Φλ(άουιος) Ὣριμος Φλ(αουίου) Μακέδονος οἰκονόμος κατ᾽ ἐπιταγήν / θεῷ ἀνεικήτῳ …
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Osterburken

    Franz Cumont considers the bas relief of Osterburken 'the most remarkable of all the monuments of the cult of Mithras found up to now'.

    TNMM176 – CIMRM 1292, 1293

    D[eo] S[oli] I[nvicto] M[ithrae] M[er?]catorius Castrensis in suo cons[ituit].
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony relief from Ladenburg

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

    TNMM290 – CIMRM 1275

  • Monumentum

    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

    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 v…
  • Monumentum

    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

    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)].
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Mauls

    The relief of Mithras slaying the bull at Mauls in Gallia cisalpina is a paradigmatic example of the so-called Rhine-type Tauroctony.

    TNMM476 – CIMRM 1400