Tauroctony relief from Corniculum

White marble relief (H. 0.37 Br. 0.33 D. 0.06) found in a house at Montecelio N-W of Tivoli on the Via Tiburtina.Piccolini in Att. Mem. Tib., XXVI, 1953, 209ff and Pl. XIV. See fig. 249.Mithras kills the bull in a vaulted cave. The animal's tail ends in corn-ears; the dog, the snake and the scorpion. Mithras looks towards the bull. Cautopates (r) with both hands holds the torch downwards; Cautes (l) holds the torch upwards. Both are cross-legged and in Oriental dress. In the l. upper corner the bust of Sol; in the r. upper corner the bust of Luna with a crescent upon the forehead.