Tauroctony upper panel from Acbunar

TNMM 2509 ↔ CIMRM 2292

The upper part of a yellowish marble relief (H. 0.22–0.15 Br. 0.41 D. 0.03) in two fragments. Bucarest, National Museum. Inv. No. L. 709.

Parvan in AAcRom. 1914, 515, 4 (546, 4) and Pl. VII, 2; Vulpe, Hist. anc. Dobr., Pl. XXXV, fig. 60. See fig. 635. LeRoy Campbell in Berytus XI, 1954, 50 No. 357.

The upper part of Mithras as a bullkiller with part of the dog. Behind the dog an amphora. Part of the grotto's border. Outside the grotto the heads of the torchbearers in Phrygian cap. Of Cautes (l) the top of the upraised torch is visible. Above him the raven and behind it the bull in a small boat. Above Cautopates (r) Mithras with upraised arms being born from the rock. He holds a torch in his l.h. Beside him a lion is walking on the grotto's border towards the amphora.

The upper border of the relief is divided from the main scene by a horizontal rim. From l. to r.:

1) Dressed bust of Sol in a crown of five rays.

2) Sitting Mithras shoots at a rock.

3) The bull in a small house. An altar.

4) The bull in a small boat.

5) Sol and Mithras at the repast.

6) Mithras taurophorus.

7) Standing person with upraised torch in his l.h.

8) Two altars.

9) Bust of Luna.