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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...
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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...
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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...
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situated along the
width of the nave, with
three altars present, and the
tauroctony is near.
Mithraic iconography is well-do****ented due to the consistent...
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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...
- 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...
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Relief of
Roman Mithras, in a
tauroctony scene...
- 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,...
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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...
