Rock-cut tauroctony relief from Rožanec

Relief (H. 1.65 Br. 1.25) carved in the west rock at a height of 1.70 above floor-level.Mitt. Krain XI, 1856, 48 and fig.; Hitzinger in Mitt. Krain XIII, 1857, 11ff.; Costa in MCC II, 1857, 301f.; von Premerstein in AEMO XIV, 1890, 97; MMM II 334 No. 232; AIJ I, 221 No. 485 and fig.; Schmid in Schild von Steier I, 1945, fig. 9.Mithras in the usual dress and attitude kills the bull in a grotto, which is indicated by an arched border. The serpent, the dog and the scorpion. In two side-panels the torchbearers Cautes (r) and Cautopates (l) above which the busts of Sol (l) and of Luna (r)…