Second tauroctony relief from Slăveni-Romanați

TNMM 2444 ↔ CIMRM 2167

White marble relief. Bucarest, National Museum (Coll. Bolliac). The r. upper corner is broken off.

Lajard, Intr., Pl. XCIX, 3; MMM II 279 No. 137b and fig. 122; LeRoy Campbell in Berytus XI, 1954, 50 No. 227.

Mithras as a bullkiller with the raven perched on his cloak. The dog and the serpent; scorpion and busts of Sol and Luna are lacking. Cautopates (l) and Cautes (r) in Oriental dress and cross-legged. The upper part of the latter is lost.

Under the main representation are four panels:

1) Foremost part of a lying lion to the r.

2) Mithras lays his l.h. on the head of Sol who kneels before him and grasps Mithras' r.h.

3) Mithras and Sol at the repast.

4) Sol helps Mithras ascending a one-horse chariot.