Category:Tauroctony

**Tauroctony**
	modern name given to imagery depicting the god Mithras killing a bull, typically featured on the cult reliefs central to Roman Mithraic Mysteries
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A tauroctony refers to the very standardized (and easily recognizable) bull-killing scene of the Roman Mithraic Mysteries. Not to be confused with a 'taurobolium', which was a type of Roman sacrifice of a bull to Artemis or Magna Mater. Unlike a 'taurobolium' (which involves real animal sacrifice), a 'tauroctony' was probably just a symbolic representation of an astrological/eschatological/cosmological event in the cult's myth (the "bull" probably represents the constellation Taurus).

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41.13a Mithras gem.tif 1,350 × 1,030; 864 KB
Acta Eruditorum - V mitologia, 1701 – BEIC 13361996.jpg 1,690 × 1,321; 177 KB
Bas-relief portraying the bull-slaying scene with figures of the two torchbearers on either side, found at the Sarrebourg (Pons Saravi) mithraeum in 1895, Musée de la Cour dOr, Metz (France) (9409246800).jpg 4,246 × 3,149; 6.17 MB
Bas-reliëf met Mithras die een stier doodsteekt Galleria Giustiniana del Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani II (serietitel), RP-P-2015-6-81.jpg 4,382 × 5,566; 2.76 MB
Engraved bronze brooch with depiction of Mithras slaying the bull, from Ostia, AD 50-100, Ashlomean Museum, Oxford (14156687386).jpg 3,789 × 3,264; 8.82 MB
Goderfredus-Christianus-Leiserus-Jus-georgicum MG 1247.tif 3,316 × 5,428; 51.53 MB
Kircher oedipus aegyptiacus 23 mithras tauroctony.png 3,847 × 3,551; 296 KB
Mithraic cameo, p123.png 897 × 566; 297 KB
Mithraic gem, broken.png 1,098 × 566; 311 KB
Mithraic Low Relief - Setif, Algeria.png 1,072 × 1,228; 1.15 MB
Mithraic medallion of bronze.png 1,064 × 502; 364 KB
Mithras-Relif 2.jpg 4,000 × 3,000; 6.65 MB
Mithras.jpg 2,266 × 2,118; 629 KB
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Monumenta veteris Antii, hoc est, Inscriptio M. Aquilii et tabula solis Mithrae variis figuris and symbolis exsculpta quae nuper inibi reperta, nunc prodeunt commentari illustrata, and accuratè (14595534778).jpg 3,184 × 2,224; 1.75 MB
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Sarcofago degli sposi con dextrarum junctio, castore e polluce, II secolo 03.JPG 2,304 × 2,838; 3.28 MB
Tauroctony Belgium.jpg 1,920 × 1,440; 616 KB
The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day (1899) (14589459849).jpg 1,260 × 1,164; 352 KB
Yorkshire Museum - Mithras.jpg 3,417 × 3,892; 2.88 MB

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