Tauroctony relief from Sarmizegetusa

Relief (H. 0.26 Br. 0.30 D. 0.04). At first in the Coll. of Adam Váradi at Zám(?), afterwards in the house of Dr. Spanyik, now at Cluj in the Archaeological Museum (Inv. No. 2586).Ms. of Fodor (in the University Library at Cluj) I, Pl. 66; Neigebaur, Dac., 41; MMM I 307 No. 189bis. Cumont gives as provenance Mintia, but Tudor, Istoria, 252 No. 53 rightly gives Sarmizegetusa as find-spot. See fig. 581.Mithras as a bullkiller, the animal wears a belt. Only its foremost part is preserved. The dog and the serpent. The lower part of cross-legged Cautes holding a torch in his upraised l.h…