Two-register tauroctony from Ratiaria

Fragment of a marble slab (H. 0.655 Br. 0.74 D. 0.18) found at Ratiaria in 1936. Windin, Museum.Danoff in Germania 1937, 171ff and fig. 1; LeRoy Campbell in Berytus XI, 1954, 51 No. 428. See fig. 614.The relief is divided into two parts. In the upper part Mithras as a bullkiller of whose body only the legs and part of his tunic and of his dagger are preserved. Under the bull with a belt, the creeping serpent. Cautes is lost. Cautopates has a torch in his r.h. and has a pedum which partly is only visible; the head is lost.In the lower part there are four scenes each in an arch of its own:…