Mithras slaughtering the sacred bull. The Roman mystery religion of Mithraism flourished from the 1st to 4th centuries. A representation of Mithras’s 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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