Open-work tauroctony fragments from Sarmizegetusa

Fragments of a yellowish marble relief in open-work sculpture.Studniczka, 212 No. 25; Kiraly, 43f No. 118 and Pl. XIV; MMM II 291 No. 161.Fragment 1 (H. 0.235): preserved up to the girdle the bullkiller representation; the god's l. hand grasps the bull's nostril; the serpent is under the horizontal rim.Fragment 2 (H. 0.06): dog and the foot of Cautes.Fragment 3 (H. 0.06): a lion walking. See fig. 547.Fragment 4: various small fragments of a laurel wreath: a) bust of Sol and the raven; b) the flame of a torch; c) bust of Luna and above it the scene of Mithras' rockbirth with upraised torch.