Bull-killing relief from Sétif

Relief (proportion unknown) found in 1861 making excavations in the cavalry barracks at Sétif. Kept in 1873 in the garden of the commander of the engineers at Sétif, nowadays in the Museum. Pelletier, Echo de Sétif, 1861; Mac Carthy in Rec. Const., 1863, 259 and 1871, 51; Héron de Villefosse in RA 1876, 139; more detailed bibliography in CIL VIII 8440; MMM II 405 No. 283 and fig. 328, L. Leschi, Algérie antique, Paris 1952, Pl. 156.The primitive relief represents Mithras as killer of the bull, walking to the right. Underneath his flying cloak the god wears a scaled armour…