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The New Mithraeum Database tagged with tauroctonia

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

Your search tauroctonia gave 179 results.

Monumentum

Tauroctony on altar of Ptuj
Remarkable fragmentary sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull on an inscribed altar found in Mithraeum III at Ptuj.
TNMM564 – CIMRM 1589, 1590
D(eo) S(oli) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / pro (sa) salute /canaliclari / et actariorum /et codicarior(um) / et librariorum / leg(ionum) V M(acedonicae) et XIII g(eminae) / Gallienarum.
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Fellbach
This relief of Mithras killing the bull, now on display in Stuttgart, includes a small altar with a sacrificial knife and an oil lamp.
TNMM563
Monumentum

Relief de Bourg-Saint-Andéol
The low relief of Bourg-Saint-Andéol depicting Mithras killing the bull has been chiseled on the rock.
TNMM129 – CIMRM 896, 897
Num[ini] . . . . V . . | deum Invictum | T Fur(ius) Iu[stus?] d(e) s(ua) p(ecunia) f(ecit).
Monumentum

Bronze medallion from Gordian III with tauroctony
The bronze medallion, from Cilicia, shows Mithras Tauroctonus on the revers.
TNMM274 – CIMRM 27
Τάρσου μητροπόλεως. Α(ύτονόυ) μ(ητρόπόλεως) Κ(ιλιχίας) γ(ράμματι) β(ουλής).
Monumentum

Two-sided relief from Rückingen
This remarkable double-sided relief depicts the myth of Mithras and the Tauroctony on one side, and a scene of Mithras the hunter and the banquet of Mithras and the Sol on the other.
TNMM552 – CIMRM 1137
Monumentum

Intaglio with Mithras and Kabiros
This intaglio with Mithras killing the bull on one side and Kabiros on the other was probably used as a magical amulet.
TNMM551 – CIMRM 2366
Monumentum

Intaglio of chalcedony at the BnF
This intaglio depicting Mithras killing the bull is preserved at the Bibliothèque national de France.
TNMM279
Monumentum

Intaglio of Mithras Tauroctonus at the Walters Art Museum
This ancient carnelian intaglio mounted in gold depicts Mithras slaying the bull surrounded by his companions Cautes and Cautopates.
TNMM543 – CIMRM 2367
Monumentum

Bronze plaque of Mithras slaying the bull
Mithras Tauroctony on bronze exposed at the Metropolitan Museum of New York.
TNMM137
Monumentum

Tauroctony stele of Nicopolis ad Istrum
The Tauroctony of Nicopolis ad Istrum is unique as it is the only Mithraic stele befitting a Greek donor.
TNMM341 – CIMRM 2264, 2265
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