Tauroctony lower panel from Sinitovo

The lower part of a marble relief (H. 0.38 Br. 0.72 D. 0.13) discovered in 1936 at Sinitovo where the relief was walled in in a well of the Apostolov family. Sinitovo is situated 8 kms south-east of Tatar-Bazardjik. Sofia, National Museum.Ch. Danoff in Germania 1936, 189ff and fig. 1. See fig. 649.The relief is badly weathered. The r. hind leg of the bull and the tail of the serpent are the only visible traces of the representation of Mithras tauroctone.Under it from l. to r.:1) Mithras emerges from the rock with uplifted hands.2) A large krater the handles of which form a crescent…