Tauroctony relief from Timziouin
TNMM 882 ↔ CIMRM 158
Left part of a bas-relief (H. 1.22 Br. 1.00), found in 1882 at Timziouin near Saïda. Museum of Oran (Inv. No. 32).
In a cavelike framing Mithras as a bull-killer. Above his flying cloak the raven. The god’s r. arm and a part of his head have got lost; besides the fore-part of the bull, whose tail ends in three ears. The scorpion on the usual place; under it some windings of the snake are visible. Behind the bull Cautopates in Eastern attire, cross-legged. With both hands he points down the flaming torch.
References
De la Blanchère in Archives de Mission (S. 3) X, 1883, 68 and Pl. VIII, 5; Lapaine in Bull. G. A. Oran VI, 1886, Pl. 8; Musées et Collections de l’Algérie III, Le Musée d’Oran 1893, 36; MMM II 405 No. 282 and fig. 327. Fig. 44 kindly given by Dr. L. Leschi.
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
