Tauroctony with Cautes and pedum from Tomis

Fragment of a marble relief (H. 0.24 Br. 0.23 D. 0.035), found at Constanța. Bucarest, National Museum.Teodorescu, Mon. Tomi, 95 No. 39 and fig. 47.Mithras as a bullkiller with dog, serpent and scorpion. The god wears a girdle. Cautes (r) with upraised torch in his r.h. and a pedum in his l.h.; not cross-legged. Lost: the head and the cloak of Mithras; Cautopates; parts of the torch and parts of Cautes' head; the busts of Sol and of Luna.In the bottom border from l. to r.:1) Head and part of the bust of Sol (repast). Next to it a vertical rim.2) Mithras ascends Sol's quadriga…