Tauroctony from Budaörs

Marble relief (H. 0.77 Br. 1.28) of which the r. upper part is lost. Found at Budaörs together with the two following monuments. Budapest, National Museum.Acta litteraria musei nationalis Hungariae I, 1818, 225; Köppen, Nachricht, 6; Hammer, Mithr., 94 No. 14; MMM II, 324, No. 218; Nagy in BpR XV, 1950, 116f and fig. 12. See fig. 463.The oblong relief has in its centre the usual representation of Mithras as a bullkiller. The greater part of the heads of the god and of the bull are lost. The dog and the serpent hold their heads towards the wound; the scorpion is in the usual place…