Tauroctony from Split

TNMM 702 ↔ CIMRM 1859

Relief in sandstone (H. 0.26 Br. 0.25 D. 0.07); at first walled in in a house at Solina; now in Split, Archaeological Museum Inv. 164, D.

Mithras kills the bull in a grotto; the god’s r. arm and r.h. are lost. The animal’s tail ends in corn-ears. The dog, the serpent and the scorpion; the raven on the grotto’s border. Cautes (r) holds with two hands the torch upwards; Cautopates (l) holds the torch downwards. Both are cross-legged. In the l. upper corner the bust of Sol in a crown of seven(?) rays. He holds a whip in his l.h. In the r. upper corner the bust of Luna in crescent.