Black jasper tauroctony from the Seyrig collection

Black jasper. Horizontal oval (0.033 × 0.025 × 0.006). Coll. Seyrig, 2.Bonner, 264f No. 69 and Pl. IV, 69. See fig. 659.O b v.: "Mithra, radiate, slaying bull, which runs to r. The god grasps the bull’s muzzle with his l.h. and he drives a knife into the animal’s neck with his r.h. Mithras’ body below shoulders, and rear of bull, lost with the left half of the stone. Dog attacks throat of bull; tail of scorpion under belly, rest of the creature lost. Snake at bottom. At r., small male figure in Phrygian costume holding torch(?) across body in reversed position(?)…