Tauroctony relief with raven on cloak from Stix-Neusiedl

TNMM 1696 ↔ CIMRM 1656

White marble relief (H. 0.25 Br. 0.32 D. 0.025). Inv. No. I, 41.

Lajard, Pl. LXXXII, 2; Sacken-Kenner, Sammlungen, No. 250a; Welcker in Zoega, Abh., 399; MMM II 333 No. 230 and fig. 208; LeRoy Campbell in Berytus XI, 1954, 45 No. 26. See fig. 422.

Mithras as a bullkiller in the usual attitude and dress. The raven perched on the rim of the god's flying cloak; the dog and the serpent near the wound; the scorpion is not visible. Before the bull there is a torchbearer, cross-legged, who holds a torch upwards in his r.h. and a torch downwards in his l. hand. On the other side there is another person in Oriental dress (probably Cautopates) who with his l.h. grasps the r. leg of Mithras. He is not cross-legged and a torch is not visible. In the upper corner the bust of Sol (l); Luna is represented in a crescent above the bull's head. In the r. upper corner a reclining figure with uncovered breast (Saturnus) who with his r.h. touches the point of Mithras' Phrygian cap. The young god is born from the rock with uplifted hands.

In the bottom border the remnants of an inscription: