Mithras stabbing a bull with a knife. Cult of Mithras inspired by the Zoroastrian Sun god Mithra. With various symbols, signs, and beasts, dog, dolphin, turtle, and a masturbating man. In heliotrope. Mitra in elitropia. Copperplate engraving by Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi after Leonardo Agostini from Gemmae et Sculpturae Antiquae Depicti ab Leonardo Augustino Senesi, Abraham Blooteling, Amsterdam, 1685.

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