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The Mysteries of Mithra Illustrations

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THE TARUOCTONOUS, OR BULL-SLAYING, MITHRA.
Bas-relief Discovered in Aquileia
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1. Antiochus and Mithra. Bas-relief of Nemrood Dagh 14
2. Imperial Coins of Trapezus 18
3. Bactrian Coins 19
4. Tauroctonous, or Bull-slaying, Mithra. Typical Representation. 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
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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Table of Contents List of Illustrations The Origins Of Mithraism
The Dissemination of Mithraism in the Roman Empire
Mithra and the Imperial Power of Rome The Doctrine of the Mithraic Mysteries The Mithraic Liturgy, Clergy and Devotees
Mithraism and the Religions of the Empire Mithraic Art Index

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