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THE TARUOCTONOUS, OR BULL-SLAYING, MITHRA.
Bas-relief Discovered in Aquileia
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List of Illustrations

FIGURE

 

PAGE

1.

King Antiochus and Mithra. Bas-relief of Nemrood Dagh

14

2.

Imperial Coins of Trapezus (Trebizond)

18

3.

Bactrian Coins

19

4.

Tauroctonous, or Bull-slaying, Mithra. Typical Representation. (Borghesi Bas-relief from the Capitol. Now in the Louvre)

21

5.

Tauroctonous Mithra. Artistic Type. (St. Petersburg)

22

6.

Tauroctonous Mithra. Artistic Type. (Vatican)

23

7.

Tauroctonous Mithra. Early Artistic Type. (Boston)

24

8.

King Antiochus and Ahura-Mazda. Bas-relief of Nemrood Dagh

27

9.

Mithraic Medallion from Tarsus, Cilicia

32

10.

Tauroctonous Mithra. (British Museum)

39

11.

Sun-God. Fragment of the Bas-relief of Virunum

50

12.

Bas-relief of Osterburken

51

13.

Plan of the Mithræum of Heddernheim

53

14.

Reverse of the Bas-relief of Heddernheim

54

15.

Bas-relief of Neuenheim

55

16.

Plan of a Mithræum in Ostia

65

17.

Silvanus

66

18.

Statues of Torch-bearers. (Lateran)

68

19.

Pedestal Found at Carnuntum

88

20.

Mithraic Kronos Found in Ostia

105

21.

Mithraic Kronos of Florence

106

22.

Mithraic Kronos of Rome

108

23.

Mithraic Kronos Found in Ostia

110

24.

Fragment of a Bas-relief Found in Virunum. (Klagenfurt)

113

25.

Bas-relief of Heddernheim

117

26.

Bas-relief of London

122

27.

Mithraic Cameo

123

28.

Mithraic Cameo, Showing Mithra and the Dioscuri

124

29.

Statues of Torch-bearers. (Palermo)

128

30.

Mithra Born from the Rock

130

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31.

Mithra Born from the Rock

131

32.

Fragment of Bas-relief of Virunum

133

33.

Tauroctonous and Taurophorous (Bull-bearing) Mithra. Clay Cup of Lanuvium

134

34.

Two Bronze Mithraic Plaques. (Vatican)

136

35.

Bas-relief of Apulum

139

36.

Inscription to Mithra Nabarze. (Sarmizegetusa)

142

37.

Tauroctonous Mithra. Bas-relief of Bologna

151

38.

Mithraic Communion. Bas-relief of Konjica

159

39.

Restoration of a Mithræum at Carnuntum

163

40.

Tauroctonous Mithra of Toronto

176

41.

Mithraic Gems. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City)

183

42.

Mithraic Cameo

185

43.

Sol, the Sun-God

186

44.

The Passion of the God. Head of the So-called Dying Alexander of the Uffizi Gallery

192

45.

Bas-relief of Mayence. Mithra Drawing His Bow

196

46.

Chained Skeleton Discovered at Saarebourg

204

47.

Mithraic Dadophorus. Wrongly Restored as Paris

212

48.

Counterpart of the Preceding

213

49.

Mithraic Kronos of Modena

222

50.

Birth of Erichthonios. Greek Vase

225

 


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