Tauroctony from Salita delle Tre Pile

White marble relief (H. 0.56 Br. 0.86), broken in two parts. Found in 1872 near the Salita delle Tre Pile, a flight of steps, leading up to the Capitoline-hill and situated opposite to S. Maria d’ Aracoeli. Close to it a small cave was hewn out. Museo Capitolino, Inv. No. 1205. C. L. Visconti in BCM 1873, 111ff and PI. III; MMM II 195 No.7 and fig. 19; Stuart Jones, Sculpt. Pal. Cons., 259 and PI. 101; Muñoz, Campidoglio, 44 and fig. 31; Pietrangeli, Mon. Culti Or., 12 No. 9.Mithras slaying the bull, whose tail ends in ears. The god looks at the raven, perched on a rocky stone behind him…