Tauroctony from Antium

Marble relief (Br. 1.50), found at Porto d’Anzio in 1699. Lost.Torre, Mon. Vet. Antii, 157f with fig.; Montfaucon, Ant. Expl. I (2) 379 and PI. CCXVI, 2; Eichhorn, De deo Sole, fig. 3; N. Müller, Mithras, fig. 4; Seel, 255 fig. a (See fig. 64); de Hammer, Mithriaca, No. 5; MMM II 247 No. 86 and fig. 79. The relief, which is only known to us as an engraving, shows Mithras as a bull-killer in the usual attitude and dress. Dog, serpent and scorpion are present. The god looks back at two fighting ravens behind him. On either side in a short tunica only, the torchbearers Cautes (r) and Cautopates (l). Cross-legged…