Tauroctony relief from Sinać

TNMM 2379 ↔ CIMRM 1849

Relief in yellow limestone (H. 0.52 Br. 0.50 D. 0.15) found in the bed of the brook Obdulje at Sinać behind the garden of the vicarage. Sinać is situated near Otočac in the Lika. Zagreb, Archaeological Museum.

Patsch, Lika 88 and fig.; Brunšmid in Vjesnik VIII, 1905, 65 No. 124 and fig.; Grabičević in AJ I, 1954, 37 No. 9. See fig. 473 kindly given by Dr. B. Grabičević. LeRoy Campbell in Berytus XI, 1954, 50 No. 274.

Mithras kills the bull whose tail ends in corn-ears. The dog is no longer visible. The serpent and the scorpion are present; the raven (head lost) is perched on Mithras' cloak. Behind the bull Cautes with upraised torch, not cross-legged. Above him the bust of Sol in a crown of seven rays. The r. part of this rough-hewn relief is lost.