Mithras would have held the bull steady with his right hand, while preparing to plunge a sword into the beast with his raised left hand. He appears nude, save the chlamys draped over his left arm, and his Phrygian cap, indicative of his Eastern origins. Closer inspection of Mithras’ cap reveal it is covered with incised stars. Further, a socket at the top would have accommodated an attribute, likely a crescent moon. Long misattributed as figures of the Dioscuri, Mars or Perseus, sculptures of Mithras, stars literally wrapped about his head, served to accommodate a complex, decidedly anti-Classical iconographic program within the established and traditional Classical idiom of sculpture in the round.