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- noun A
depiction ofMithras killing abull .
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To a parochial Wasp, the proceedings at Temple Emanuel on Fifth Avenue, for example, seem about as familiar as a Mithraic tauroctony.
Jewish Like Me Collins, Amy Fine 2008
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Mithras's temples, called Mithraea, are the best archaeological evidence of the god's worship, and most of them featured a characteristic depiction of Mithras slaying a bull, a scene called the tauroctony ...
Latest Articles Archaeology Magazine 2010
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