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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.

 
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    Tauroctony on display in Princeton

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

    TNMM282 – CIMRM 605

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony on displya at the Getty Museum

    This fragmentary scupture of Mithras killing the bull belongs to the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA.

    TNMM538

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony on display in Virginia

    Rich relief on display at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art showing Mithras sacrificing the bull accompanied by Cautes and Cautopates.

    TNMM540

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony exhibited at the Cincinnati Art Museum

    In the tauroctonic relief on display at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Mithras slaughters the bull over a rocky background.

    TNMM336

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of the Mitreo delle terme di Mitra

    The person who commanded the sculpture may have been M. Umbilius Criton, documented in the Mitreo della Planta Pedis.

    TNMM108 – CIMRM 230, 231

    Κρίτων / Ἀθηναιος / έποίει.
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony relief exposed at the Hermitage Museum

    The relief marble of Mithras sacrifying the bull, exposed on the Hermitage Museum comes from Rome.

    TNMM308 – CIMRM 603, 604

    D(onum) deo invicto d(ederunt) / Marci Matti / Fortuna/tus / et Alexander / et Pardus / et Eficax / per Fl(avio) Alexandro patre.
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    Tauroctony of Sarrebourg

    The Tauroctony of Saarbourg (Sarrebourg, ancient Pons Sarravi), France, contains most of Mithras deeds known in a single relief.

    TNMM114 – CIMRM 966, 967

    In h(onorem) d(omus) d(ivinae) deo inv[ict]o Marceleus Marianus / d(e) / s(uo) p(osuit)
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    Tauroctony of Aigio

    The Tauroctony of Patras was found years before the temple over which the relief of Mithras sacrificing the bull was supposed to preside.

    TNMM361 – CIMRM 2351, 2352

    Soli invic/to milites/ ..... uist/ .... esarcus
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Symphorus and Marcus from Aquincum

    This sculpture of Mithras killing the sacred bull bears an inscription that mentions the donors.

    TNMM526 – CIMRM 1768, 1769

    [Sy]mphorus et M(arcus).
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony relief of Carnuntum

    This relief found at Carnuntum represents Mithras slaughtering the bull, without the scorpion, in the sacred cave.

    TNMM523