Tauroctony relief from Belkıs

This Mithraic relief from the ancient city of Zeugma, depicting Mithras in the act of killing the bull, was discovered as a stray find in 2015 near At Meydanı, within the military-urban quarter west of Belkıs Tepe. Carved from fine-grained marble in bluish-beige to white tones, the slab measures approximately 33.5 by 38.3 cm and preserves a highly standardised representation of Mithraic iconography.Mithras is portrayed kneeling over the bull in the canonical composition of the tauroctony, with a radiant nimbus encircling his head. The relief also includes the torchbearers Cautes and Cautopates…