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Tauroctony is a modern name given to the central cult reliefs of the Mithraic Mysteries in the Roman Empire. The imagery depicts Mithras killing a bull...

are about 1000 inscriptions, 700 examples of the bull-killing scene (tauroctony), and about 400 other monuments.(p xxi) It has been estimated that there...

was an element of Mithraic iconography, usually in the context of the tauroctony. In the mithraeum of S. Maria Capua Vetere, a wall painting that uniquely...

based on the tauroctony: the image of Mithras killing a bull that was placed at the center of every Mithraic temple. In the standard tauroctony, Mithras and...

was that of the 1st–4th century Mithraic Mysteries. In the so-called "tauroctony" artwork of that cult (cultus), and which appears in all its temples,...

Mithras in the icons of the ancient Roman cult of Mithraism, known as Tauroctony. Cautes holds his torch raised up, and Cautopates holds his torch pointed...

Relief of Roman Mithras, in a tauroctony scene...

components to the core cult image of Mithras slaying a bull, known as the tauroctony, have also been greatly debated. Propositions that the scene depicts nothing...

in Zoroaster's Gathas and the Avesta. The killing of the sacred bull (tauroctony) is the essential central iconic act of the Iranian Mithras, which was...

killing") and biau or bœuf ("bull"). An inversion of this martyrdom, the tauroctony, the "killing of the bull," is precisely the central rite of Mithraism...

other mystery cults. In the artwork of the cult (e.g. in the so-called "tauroctony" cult images), the figures of the god Mithras as well as those of his...

with Janus. Sol appears many times in depictions of Mithras, such as the Tauroctony of Mithras killing the bull, and looking at Sol over his shoulder. They...

Ulpius Silvanus's Tauroctony depicting Mithras killing the bull, discovered in the ruins of the London Mithraeum...

as numbers 74–87. Cautes Mithras carrying the bull Cautopates Mithraic tauroctony Cautes Mithraic Kronos Cautes Durighello's Letter about the Sidon Mithraeum...

Eikev, Torah parshiot dealing with the Golden Calf Red heifer Sacred bull Tauroctony Exodus 32:4. Chung, Youn Ho (2010). The Sin of the Calf: The Rise of the...

relief, 0.53 m tall, of Mithras in the act of killing the astral bull, the Tauroctony that was as central to Mithraism as the Crucifixion is to Christianity...

A marble relief of the tauroctony in later Roman Mithraism, 2nd – 3rd century CE...

perennis ("the ever-flowing stream"). In the center of every Mithraeum was a tauroctony, a painting or sculpture showing Mithras as a young man, usually wearing...

ceremonies. The lower wall has a plaque on two columns depicting the tauroctony, a standard iconic feature of the Mithraic Mysteries. 400 coins, oil lamps...

helmet is of a great interest, and has been interpreted in light of the tauroctony scene from the Mithraic Mysteries. Environment and affluence might well...