Tauroctony relief from Hölzern

TNMM 2195 ↔ CIMRM 1294

Relief in red sandstone (H. 0.31 Br. 0.95 D. 0.15) from Hölzern. Since 1861 at Stuttgart, Württembergisches Landesmuseum, Inv. No. 220. I am grateful to Dr. R. Roeren for having supplied me with all information during my visit to the Museum in the Altes Schloss.

Haug, Kön. Württ., 164; Sixt, Schwaben I, 56 No. 242; Führer Stuttgart, No. 202; MMM II 343 No. 243; Haug-Sixt, Röm. Inschr. Württ., 289 No. 384; Esp. Rec. Germ., 431f No. 684. See fig. 343.

The relief, which is badly damaged, forms part of the border of a large cult-relief and is divided into four scenes by vertical rims:

1) Standing Mithras shoots an arrow in the direction of a rock.

2) Mithras is walking in the direction of a rock or a person.

3) Mithras taurophorus.

4) Mithras ascends the car of Sol who gives him a hand. The car and the horses are lost; only the upper part of Sol's body is preserved.