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Mithras slaughtering the sacred bull. The Roman mystery religion of Mithraism flourished from the 1st to 4th centuries. A representation of Mithrass slaying of the bull, an act called tauroctony, was the focal point in all mithraeums, or Mithraic religious centres. After a work by an unidentified artist in A Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, by Sir John Edwin Sandys, published 1895
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Mithras slaughtering the sacred bull. The Roman mystery religion of Mithraism flourished from the 1st to 4th centuries. A representation of Mithrass slaying of the bull, an act called tauroctony, was the focal point in all mithraeums, or Mithraic religious centres. After a work by an unidentified artist in A Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, by Sir John Edwin Sandys, published 1895
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Album / Hilary Jane Morgan/Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group
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Image size:
3464 x 5360 px | 53.1 MB
Print size:
29.3 x 45.4 cm | 11.5 x 17.9 in (300 dpi)
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