Third tauroctony relief from Sopron

TNMM 2345 ↔ CIMRM 1643

Marble relief (H. 0.70 Br. 0.55 D. 0.10). See fig. 420.

Bella, 327ff and fig.; Kuzsinszky, 26ff and fig.; Cumont, Textes II, 391 No. 237 and fig. 237.

Mithras as a bullkiller in the usual dress and attitude. The raven on the grotto's border. The dog near the wound; the serpent; the scorpion in the usual place. On either side a torchbearer. Cautopates (l) cross-legged with torch downwards. Cautes (r) with torch upwards. In the upper corners the busts of Sol (l) and of Luna (r). Outside the grotto's border on each side a scene. On the l. side Mithras shoots his arrow at a rock (water-miracle). On the r. side Mithras in Oriental dress and Sol at the sacred repast (the figure of Sol is almost entirely lost). Underneath the relief an inscription in a tabula: