Tauroctony relief from Romula

Relief in yellow marble (H. 0.35 Br. 0.24–0.20 D. 0.03), found in the ruins of Romula in 1912. Bucarest, National Museum (L. 710).Parvan in AAcRom (S. II) XXXVI, 1913, 56 No. 22 and Pl. VII, 1; AA 1913, 377ff No. 22 and fig. 12; LeRoy Campbell in Berytus XI, 1954, 51 No. 421 and Pl. IV, 2; Tudor, Oltenia, 312 and fig. 78. See fig. 591.The relief has the form of a trapezium; it is arched at the top and by two horizontal rims it is divided into three parts. In the centre is the representation of Mithras as a bullkiller and on either side a torchbearer who hold the torch downwards…