List of Illustrations

THE TARUOCTONOUS, OR BULL-SLAYING, MITHRA. Bas-relief Discovered in Aquileia. p. xiii 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 p. xiv 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