Tauroctony relief from Kabyle

TNMM 2545 ↔ CIMRM 2339

Arched relief (H. 0.205 Br. 0.175–0.20 D. 0.035) discovered in "Tauschen-tepe", north of Iambol, where the ruins of ancient Kabyle are situated (Cf. PW X 1455).

Kazarow in AA 1920–1921, 344f and fig.; AJA 1924, 82; LeRoy Campbell in Berytus XI, 1954, 50 No. 222.

The weathered relief represents Mithras as a bullkiller. On either side a torchbearer. Before Cautes who is standing behind the bull, there is on the floor a vaguely visible object (lion's head?). Above him the raven.

Above the main scene from l. to r.:

1) A sitting animal.

2) Standing bull in a small boat.

3) Mithras' rockbirth between Luna and Sol. The god holds a knife in his upraised r.h.