Tauroctony with subsidiary scenes from Sarmizegetusa

TNMM 1892 ↔ CIMRM 2037

Four fragments of a bluish marble relief (H. 0.18 Br. 0.37 D. 0.028–0.018).

Studniczka, No. 37; Kiraly, 49f No. 129 and Pl. XXI, 1; MMM II 298f No. 172 and fig. 155. See fig. 535.

In the centre the representation of Mithras as a bullkiller. Preserved: the god's head in Phrygian cap; the flying cloak on which the raven is perched; the points of the Phrygian caps of the torchbearers. Above the r. torchbearer the scene of Mithras with upraised hands who is being born from the rock. The god has a Phrygian cap and holds a knife (l.h.) and the torch (r.h.).

Above the main scene in a triangular pediment:

1) The breast and the shoulders of Sol's bust.

2) The lower part of a sitting person (Mithras as an archer) and a person squatting before a rock. The head of the latter is lost.

3) The bull in a small house, the roof of which is lost.

4) The bull in a small boat.

5) The foremost part of a goat.

6) The bust of Luna.