Marble tauroctony from Mithraeum III, Heddernheim

Fragments of a white marble relief (H. 0.43 Br. 0.35 D. 0.02–0.025).Wolff-Cumont, 37; MMM II 378l and fig. 293; Esp. Rec. Germ., 106 No. 159 and fig. See fig. 294.The relief is arched. In its centre in a wreath of leaves is the representation of Mithras as a bullkiller. Lost: the god's l. arm; the foremost part of his r. arm, the flying cloak; the bull's head, part of one foreleg and the end of his tail. A belt runs round the bull's body. The dog leaps up against the bull, the scorpion is lost; of the serpent only the hindmost part is preserved; the raven's head is visible outside the wreath…