Tauroctony relief with raven from Mithraeum II, Ptuj

TNMM 1602 ↔ CIMRM 1512

White marble relief (H. 0.38 Br. 0.45 D. 0.04). Inv. No. 154.

Abramić in Jahrb. f. Alterk., 1913 Taf. XXIV, 3; Abramić, Führer, 76 No. 72 and fig. 17; AIJ I, 141 No. 301 and fig. See fig. 388.

Mithras in Oriental dress as a bullkiller. He wears a girdle around his tunic. On the grotto's border is the raven. The dog near the wound; the serpent creeping over the ground; the scorpion is not clearly visible. Behind the bull Cautopates is standing cross-legged with the torch downwards. He holds in his l.h. an oblong, thin, arched object (sling?). Cautes (r) is not cross-legged and holds the torch upwards. In the upper corners the busts of Sol (l) and of Luna with crescent.

In the bottom border an inscription: