Tauroctony
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Tauroctony is a modern name given to the central cult reliefs of the Mithraic Mysteries in the Roman Empire. The imagery depicts Mithras killing a bull, hence the name tauroctony after the Greek word
CIMRM 641: Tauroctony scene on side A of a two-sided Roman bas-relief. 2nd or 3rd century, found at Fiano Romano, near Rome, now on display in the Louvre. In the upper corners are Helios with the raven, and Luna.
CIMRM 181: Tauroctony fresco in the mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere, 2nd century.
CIMRM 1083: Tauroctony relief from the "Heidenfeld" Mithraeum (Mithraeum I, Heddernheim, Germany), now in Wiesbaden. An extensive description is available at this image's Wikipedia commons page.
Detail of CIMRM 593: dog and serpent set at the bull's wound.
Sol (Roman mythology)
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Sol is the personification of the Sun and a god in ancient Roman religion. It was long thought that Rome actually had two different, consecutive sun gods: The first, Sol Indiges, was thought to have b
Sol on a disk
Polychrome reproduction of the Mithraic banquet scene featuring Mithras and the Sun god (Sol Invictus) banqueting on the hide of the slaughtered bull, dating to 130 CE, Lobdengau-Museum, Ladenburg, Germany
On the left, the Roman Emperor Aurelian with a radiate crown and on the right, a depiction of Sol