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and zodiakal signs also occur on the walls, and on the pavement of black te er on a white ground, Mithraic tablets are to be found in the British Museum, and in those of the Louvre, Vatican, and at Metz, (See Open Court, Dec, 1903.) The Vatican Mithra (No, 1412) shows him killing the bull, with aid from the dog, serpent, and scorpion. The London group is the same, with two torch-bearers added. The Aquila tablet gives instead figures of the sun and moon in chariots, with the central group as before, the bull’s tail having a corn ear at the end. The Borghese group gives four horses to the sun chariot, and two to that of the moon. In another case a crab is said to take the place of the scorpion, and a fish and urn appear in one example. At Mayence Mithra bears a bow. The fine statue at Naples came from the celebrated cave temple of Mithra in the island of Capri. 572