Painted scenes from the Mithras legend at Dura Europos

Around the relief a number of scenes from the Mithras-Iegend have been painted (see fig. 12, 6). The main colours are black, yellow and grey. Rostovtzeff in RM 1934, 189ff; Cumont in CRAI 1934, 97ff; du Mesnil du Buisson in GBA 1935, 8ff and figs. 8-12; Report, 105ff and PI. XVIII, 1. The thirteen pictures, each one of them in a trapezoidal frame, are divided from the larger bas-relief by a stylized painted garland. The key of the arch was formed by a central picture which divided the series of pictures into two halves, containing six pictures each. 1) The key stone is adorned by the upper…