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- Title
The Amuletic Design of the Mithraic Bull-Wounding Scene.
- Authors
Faraone, Christopher A.
- Abstract
Recent research reveals that in the so-called Mithraic tauroctony, the god is, in fact, wounding a bull, not killing it. I argue that the scene combines the overall design of evil-eye amulets with the pose of the goddess Nike performing a military sphagion and I suggest that the scene must have been understood by its creator and by some viewers, at least, to offer protective power in this world, as well as salvific assurance about the next, a dual focus that seems to have been especially strong in Mithraism.
- Subjects
MITHRAIC art &; symbolism; BULLS in art; MITHRAISM; MITHRAS (Zoroastrian deity); AMULETS; EVIL eye
- Publication
Journal of Roman Studies, 2013, Vol 103, p96
- ISSN
0075-4358
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0075435813000051