artist: <div class="fn value"> Unknown artist<span style="display: none;">Unknown artist</span> </div>
dimensions: H. 58 cm (22 ¾ in.), W. 67 cm (26 ¼ in.), D. 16 cm (6 ¼ in.)
current location: Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Denon wing, ground floor :Museum:Louvre
source: [[User:PHGCOM]], 2006
credit: <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:PHGCOM" class="mw-redirect" title="User:PHGCOM">User:PHGCOM</a>, 2006
description: Double-sided 2nd-3rd century Mithraic altarpiece found near Fiano Romano, near Rome, and now in the Louvre. For full descriptions, see <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jastrow" title="User:Jastrow">User:Jastrow</a>'s hi-res versions:<ul> <li> <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mithras_tauroctony_Louvre_Ma3441b.jpg" title="File:<u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">mithras</u> tauroctony Louvre Ma3441b.jpg">File:Mithras_tauroctony_Louvre_Ma3441b.jpg</a> (obverse; tauroctony scene), and </li> <li> <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mithras_banquet_Louvre_Ma3441.jpg" title="File:<u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">mithras</u> banquet Louvre Ma3441.jpg">File:Mithras_banquet_Louvre_Ma3441.jpg</a> (reverse; banquet scene).</li> </ul>
license:CC-BY-SA-3.0
artist: <div class="fn value"> <span lang="en">Anonymous</span> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Roman_Empire" class="extiw" title="w:en:Roman Empire"><span title="period of Imperial Rome following the Roman Republic (27 BC–395 AD)">Roman Empire</span></a>)<span style="display:none">Unknown author</span> </div>
date: 1<sup>st</sup> century <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+050-00-00T00:00:00Z/7</div> (Roman)
medium: stone, glass tesserae
dimensions: size cm 60.6 (diam.); framed: size cm 78.3 78.2 6.7
current location: Acquired by Henry Walters, 1921
credit: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Walters_Art_Museum" class="extiw" title="w:en:Walters Art Museum"><span title="art museum in Baltimore, Maryland, USA">Walters Art Museum</span></a>: <a href="https://thewalters.org/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="Nuvola filesystems folder home.svg" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Nuvola_filesystems_folder_home.svg/20px-Nuvola_filesystems_folder_home.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Nuvola_filesystems_folder_home.svg/30px-Nuvola_filesystems_folder_home.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Nuvola_filesystems_folder_home.svg/40px-Nuvola_filesystems_folder_home.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128"></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://thewalters.org/">Home page</a> <a href="https://art.thewalters.org/detail/18964" rel="nofollow"><img alt="Information icon.svg" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Information_icon.svg/20px-Information_icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Information_icon.svg/30px-Information_icon.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Information_icon.svg/40px-Information_icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620"></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://art.thewalters.org/detail/18964">Info about artwork</a>
description: <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">mithras</u> was a Persian creation god, as well as the god of light. Mithraism, the mystery religion associated with him, spread throughout the Roman Empire. Initiation into Mithraism was restricted to men and was especially popular with soldiers in Rome and on the northern frontier during the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD. <p>According to the Persian myth, the sun god sent his messenger, the raven, to <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">mithras</u> and ordered him to sacrifice the primeval white bull. At the moment of its death, the bull became the moon, and <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">mithras</u>'s cloak became the sky, stars, and planets. From the bull also came the first ears of grain and all the other creatures on earth. This scene of sacrifice, central to Mithraism, is called the Tauroctony and is represented as taking place in a cave, observed by Luna, the moon god, and Sol, the invincible Sun god, with whom he became associated in Roman times. <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">mithras</u> is generally depicted flanked by his two attendants, Cautes and Cautopates, and accompanied by a dog, raven, snake, and scorpion. </p> This central medallion from a floor mosaic depicts the birth of <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">mithras</u>. Emerging from a rock, he is flanked by his two attendants, Cautes and Cautopates. Above him flies the raven, associated with the creation myth and with the first level of initiation into his cult.
license:Public domain
artist: <div class="fn value"> <span lang="en">Anonymous</span> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Roman_Empire" class="extiw" title="w:en:Roman Empire"><span title="period of Imperial Rome following the Roman Republic (27 BC–395 AD)">Roman Empire</span></a>)<span style="display:none">Unknown author</span> </div>
date: 1<sup>st</sup> century <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+050-00-00T00:00:00Z/7</div>
medium: Pentelic marble
dimensions: size cm height=50.4 width=28.1 depth=13.5
current location: Gift of Mr. Max Falk, 1984
credit: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Walters_Art_Museum" class="extiw" title="w:en:Walters Art Museum"><span title="art museum in Baltimore, Maryland, USA">Walters Art Museum</span></a>: <a href="https://thewalters.org/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="Nuvola filesystems folder home.svg" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Nuvola_filesystems_folder_home.svg/20px-Nuvola_filesystems_folder_home.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Nuvola_filesystems_folder_home.svg/30px-Nuvola_filesystems_folder_home.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Nuvola_filesystems_folder_home.svg/40px-Nuvola_filesystems_folder_home.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128"></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://thewalters.org/">Home page</a> <a href="https://art.thewalters.org/detail/33798" rel="nofollow"><img alt="Information icon.svg" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Information_icon.svg/20px-Information_icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Information_icon.svg/30px-Information_icon.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Information_icon.svg/40px-Information_icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620"></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://art.thewalters.org/detail/33798">Info about artwork</a>
description: <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">mithras</u> was a Persian creation god, as well as the god of light. Mithraism, the mystery religion associated with him, spread throughout the Roman Empire. Initiation into Mithraism was restricted to men and was especially popular with soldiers in Rome and on the northern frontier during the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD. <p>According to the Persian myth, the sun god sent his messenger, the raven, to <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">mithras</u> and ordered him to sacrifice the primeval white bull. At the moment of its death, the bull became the moon, and <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">mithras</u>'s cloak became the sky, stars, and planets. From the bull also came the first ears of grain and all the other creatures on earth. This scene of sacrifice, central to Mithraism, is called the Tauroctony and is represented as taking place in a cave, observed by Luna, the moon god, and Sol, the invincible Sun god, with whom he became associated in Roman times. <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">mithras</u> is generally depicted flanked by his two attendants, Cautes and Cautopates, and accompanied by a dog, raven, snake, and scorpion. </p> This is a fragment of a relief that depicted <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">mithras</u> standing between his two attendants and surrounded by a circular band that included the twelve signs of the zodiac. Partial images of Capricorn, Sagittarius, and Scorpio are preserved here, as well as <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">mithras</u>'s torch-bearing attendant Cautopates. Astrology was central to the Mithraic religion.
license:Public domain
artist: <div class="fn value"> <span lang="en">Anonymous</span> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Roman_Empire" class="extiw" title="w:en:Roman Empire"><span title="period of Imperial Rome following the Roman Republic (27 BC–395 AD)">Roman Empire</span></a>)<span style="display:none">Unknown author</span> </div>
date: 3<sup>rd</sup> century <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+250-00-00T00:00:00Z/7</div>
medium: hematite, gold mount
dimensions: size cm height=1.9 width=2.72 depth=0.45 ; H without elaborate setting: 1/2 x W: 11/16 x D: 1/8 in. (1.3 x 1.8 x 0.3 cm)
current location: Museum purchase [formerly part of the Walters Collection], 1942
credit: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Walters_Art_Museum" class="extiw" title="w:en:Walters Art Museum"><span title="art museum in Baltimore, Maryland, USA">Walters Art Museum</span></a>: <a href="https://thewalters.org/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="Nuvola filesystems folder home.svg" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Nuvola_filesystems_folder_home.svg/20px-Nuvola_filesystems_folder_home.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Nuvola_filesystems_folder_home.svg/30px-Nuvola_filesystems_folder_home.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Nuvola_filesystems_folder_home.svg/40px-Nuvola_filesystems_folder_home.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128"></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://thewalters.org/">Home page</a> <a href="https://art.thewalters.org/detail/40013" rel="nofollow"><img alt="Information icon.svg" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Information_icon.svg/20px-Information_icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Information_icon.svg/30px-Information_icon.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Information_icon.svg/40px-Information_icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620"></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://art.thewalters.org/detail/40013">Info about artwork</a>
description: <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">mithras</u> was a Persian creation god, as well as the god of light. Mithraism, the mystery religion associated with him, spread throughout the Roman Empire. Initiation into Mithraism was restricted to men and was especially popular with soldiers in Rome and on the northern frontier during the 2nd and 3rd centuries. <p>According to the Persian myth, the sun god sent his messenger, the raven, to <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">mithras</u> and ordered him to sacrifice the primeval white bull. At the moment of its death, the bull became the moon, and <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">mithras</u>'s cloak became the sky, stars, and planets. From the bull also came the first ears of grain and all the other creatures on earth. This scene of sacrifice, central to Mithraism, is called the Tauroctony and is represented as taking place in a cave, observed by Luna, the moon god, and Sol, the invincible Sun god, with whom he became associated in Roman times. <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">mithras</u> is generally depicted flanked by his two attendants, Cautes and Cautopates, and accompanied by a dog, raven, snake, and scorpion. </p> On the front of this two-sided intaglio is the scene of <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">mithras</u> slaying the primeval bull. <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">mithras</u>, dressed in Phrygian clothing, kneels upon the bull with one leg while stabbing it with a dagger. Also present are images of Sol and Luna, a raven, a scorpion, a snake, and a dog. The back depicts Abraxas, a cock-headed, snake-tailed Near Eastern deity.
license:Public domain
artist: unknown
source: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/4e/10/7c7da58eafca09e20240ff1fd611.jpg * Gallery: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/M0006363.html * Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-23): https://wellcomecollection.org/works/pjxbcf84 [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY-4.0]
credit: <p><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/4e/10/7c7da58eafca09e20240ff1fd611.jpg">https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/4e/10/7c7da58eafca09e20240ff1fd611.jpg</a> </p> <ul> <li>Gallery: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/M0006363.html">https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/M0006363.html</a> </li> <li>Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-23): <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://wellcomecollection.org/works/pjxbcf84">https://wellcomecollection.org/works/pjxbcf84</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC-BY-4.0</a> </li> </ul>
description: <div class="description"> <p><u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">mithras</u> sacrificing the bull </p> <p>Wellcome Images</p> </div>
license:CC BY 4.0
artist: unknown
source: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/f8/e7/0430bcba70f83ccfc74516515788.jpg * Gallery: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/M0015427.html * Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-27): https://wellcomecollection.org/works/asxfk2b7 [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY-4.0]
credit: <p><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/f8/e7/0430bcba70f83ccfc74516515788.jpg">https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/f8/e7/0430bcba70f83ccfc74516515788.jpg</a> </p> <ul> <li>Gallery: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/M0015427.html">https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/M0015427.html</a> </li> <li>Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-27): <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://wellcomecollection.org/works/asxfk2b7">https://wellcomecollection.org/works/asxfk2b7</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC-BY-4.0</a> </li> </ul>
license:CC BY 4.0
artist: unknown
date: mid-2nd–early 3rd century A.D.
medium: Bronze
dimensions: Overall: 14 x 11 5/8 x 1 3/4 in. (35.6 x 29.5 x 4.4 cm)
current location: Institution:Metropolitan Museum of Art
source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/256570 Template:TheMet
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description: <div class="description"> Roman; Plaque of <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">mithras</u> killing the bull; Bronzes</div>
license:CC0
artist: <div class="fn value"> <span lang="en">Anonymous</span> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Antonio_Lafreri" class="extiw" title="w:en:Antonio Lafreri"><span title="French painter, cartographer, engraver and publisher (1512-1577)">Antonio Lafreri</span></a>)<span style="display:none">Unknown author</span> </div>
date: 1564<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1564-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
medium: technique etching
dimensions: sheet: 19 1/8 x 13 3/16 in. (48.5 x 33.5 cm) plate: 16 1/8 x 10 7/16 in. (41 x 26.5 cm)
current location: Institution:Metropolitan Museum of Art
source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/402934 Template:TheMet
credit: This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Met" title="Commons:Met">Metropolitan Museum of Art</a>. See the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/image-resources">Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy</a>
license:CC0
artist: <div class="fn value"> <div style="float:left;"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4233718" class="extiw" title="d:Q4233718"><span title="term used to describe the unknown creator of a work">anonymous</span></a></div> <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49284467#P170" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a> </div>
date: 0240
credit: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/6746">https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/6746</a> <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg" class="image" title="Edit this at Structured Data on Commons"><img alt="Edit this at Structured Data on Commons" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a>
license:Public domain
artist: <div class="fn value"> <div style="float:left;"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4233718" class="extiw" title="d:Q4233718"><span title="term used to describe the unknown creator of a work">anonymous</span></a></div> <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49294703#P170" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a> </div>
date: 0210
credit: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/6892">https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/6892</a> <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg" class="image" title="Edit this at Structured Data on Commons"><img alt="Edit this at Structured Data on Commons" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a>
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