Tauroctony relief with torchbearers from Settignano, near Florence

Rectangular marble relief, at first in the Coll. Villa Martin at Settignano, now in the Archäologisches Museum, Florence. Found in Etruria.Mithras in Eastern attire slaying the bull, whose tail ends in three ears and whose body is surrounded by a large band. The god looks back at the raven. Dog and serpent lick the blood from the wound; the scorpion on the usual place. On either side a torchbearer: Cautes on the left and Cautopates on the right, both in Eastern attire and cross-legged. In the upper corners the busts of Sol on the left and of Luna in a crescent on the right.