Tauroctony relief fragment from San Zeno am Nonsberg, Trentino

Fragment of coarse-grained yellowish-white marble, found in 1911 at S. Zeno am Nonsberg where it had been walled in. Now in the Museum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck.Of the primitive relief only a part of Mithras slaying the bull with his dagger has been preserved. The heads of the serpent and the dog near the wound. Before this scene Cautes, raising with both hands the flaming torch; not cross-legged.