Seyrig 2

 

Obv. Mithra, radiate, slaying bull, which runs to r. The god grasps the bull's muzzle with his l. hand, and with his r. drives knife into the animal's neck. Mithra's body below shoulders, and rear of bull, lost with the left half of the stone. Dog attacks throat of bull; tail of scorpion under belly, rest of the creature lost. Snake at bottom. At r., small male figure in Phrygian costume holding torch (?) across body in reversed position (?). Over the bull's muzzle, ην, possibly the last two letters of φρην, the first two having been placed in the lost portion at l. of Mithra's head. Phre, “the sun” is sometimes written on amulets with parasitic nu.

 

Rev. αβλαναθ[αναλβα].

 

Black jasper. Horizontal oval, 33 × 25 × 6.