Information om | Engelska ordet TAUROCTONY

Exempel på hur man kan använda TAUROCTONY i en mening

• The killing of the sacred bull (tauroctony) is the essential central iconic act of the Iranian Mithras, which was commemorated in the mithraeum wherever Roman soldiers were stationed.
• However, Mithras is distinct from both deities known as Sol Invictus, and they are separate entities on Mithraic statuary and artwork such as the tauroctony, hunting scenes, and banquet scenes, in which Mithras dines with Sol.
• Luna in her biga drawn by horses or oxen was an element of Mithraic iconography, usually in the context of the tauroctony.
• Starting from the 1st century BC and up to the 4th century AD Mithraism was very widespread and relevant in Roman Empire and, although the mystery character of this religion, many are the finds found but the Mithras of Fiano Romano, both for its completeness and complexity of the symbolism reported that for the artistic quality of the work, as well as for the excellent conservation, it is one of the best, so much so that Cumont defined it "an exceptional representation, which distinguishes it from ordinary images, so numerous, of the god of tauroctony ".

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