Monumentum
Tauroctony of Arshawi-Kibar
This relief of Mithras as bull slayer is surrounded by Cautes and Cautopates with their usual torch plus an oval object.
The New Mithraeum
28 Dec 2020
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Cumont in Syria 1933, 381ff and Pl. XL, 2;1 Berytus XI, 1954, Pl. III, 1. See fig. 25.
The relief is hewn out in a thick piece of rock-stone. A monstrously small Mithras in Eastern dress as a bull-killer. Behind the animal’s drooping tail a snake; on the other side, in front of the bull, the dog. The raven flies towards the god, the scorpion is invisible. In the upper corners
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