CIMRM 1859 - Sandstone tauroctony. Salona, now Split, Croatia.

CIMRM entry

SALONA l859. Relief in sandstone (H. 0.26 Br. 0.25 D. 0.07); at first walled in in a house at Solina; now in Split, Archaeological Museum Inv. 164, D. Patsch in WMBH 1896, 50; MMM II 502 No. 232ter; Bulic in BASD 1909, 52f and Pl. VI, 1; Gabricevic in AJ I 1954, 37 No. 1; LeRoy Campbell in Berytus XI, 1954,47 No. 123. See fig. 475. Mithras kills the bull in a grotto; the god's r. arm and r.h. are lost. The animal's tail ends in corn-ears. The dog, the serpent and the scorpion; the raven on the grotto's border. Cautes (r) holds with two hands the torch upwards; Cautopates (l) holds the torch downwards. Both are cross-legged. In the l. upper corner the bust of Sol in a crown of seven(?) rays. He holds a whip in his l.h. In the r. upper corner the bust of Luna in crescent.