Open-work tauroctony from Sarmizegetusa

Eight fragments of a white marble relief (H. 0.70 Br. 0.60 D. 0.04).Studniczka, No. 38; Kiraly, 56f No. 139 and Pl. XXI, 2; MMM II 299f No. 173 and fig. 156. See fig. 539 only some fragments which I could find again.The central part in open-work sculpture and surrounded by a rectangular rim. Of the scene of Mithras as a bullkiller only the god's head, one hindleg and the knee of one foreleg of the bull are preserved. Part of the dog and in the r. upper corner the flame of Cautes' torch.Various panels are grouped around the main scene:1) Mithras' taurophorus.2) Above it the lower part of the…