CIMRM 606.jpg - Tauroctony. Royal Ontario Museum, Canada.

Relief of Mithras killing the bull. The relief has been restored, and the crack is plainly visible. The figure at right, the "luna", and the head and left arm of Mithras are all restorations. All have been restored wrongly in various ways. Top left is Sol, wearing a rayed crown. Beneath him the raven. Underneath him is Cautes, with torch upright. Mithras stabs the bull (unusual angle) and the dog and snake lick at the blood, while the scorpion is in his accustomed position.

CIMRM entry

606. White marble relief (H. 0.90 Br. about 1.20). Janes Buildings, Toronto. MMM II 483 No. 67bis and fig. 418; from a report in AJA we understand, that on Dec. 29, 1926 N. W. de Witt lectured on "A Mithras relief at Toronto". This lecture seems to have been published, but we have not yet succeeded in consulting it. Cf. No. 616. In a cave Mithras, slaying the bull. With his l.h. he seems to grasp one of its horns. Dog, serpent and scorpion. The raven on the rocky border. On either side a torchbearer, cross-legged. Both raise their torches (probably a modern restoration). In the upper corners the dressed busts of Sol in radiate crown (l) and of Luna with a cloth on her hair, on which a crescent is visible.

Note: I originally added this as a supplementary item, but a correspondent kindly identified it as CIMRM 606.