Animal sacrifice

An animal sacrifice is the killing of an animal, such as a goat or pig, to a deity.

Animal Sacrifice Media

• Sacrifice boar Louvre G112.jpg

  Sacrifice of a pig in ancient Greece (tondo from an Attic red-figure cup, BC/BCE, by the Epidromos Painter, collections of the Louvre)

• Sassari - Complesso prenuragico di Monte d'Accoddi (30).JPG

  One of the altars at the Monte d'Accoddi in Sardinia, where animal sacrifice may have occurred.

• Sacrifice to Athena, Amphora from Vulci, 550-540 BC, Berlin F 1686, 141662.jpg

  A bull is led to the altar of Athena, whose image is at right. Vase, c. 545 BCE.

• Roman sacrifice Louvre Ma992.jpg

  Preparation of an animal sacrifice; marble, fragment of an architectural relief, first quarter of the 2nd century AD; from Rome, Italy

• Taurobolium ex voto altar dedicated to the Mother of the Gods on behalf of the emperor's wellbeing, set up by a priest in Roman Gaul (CIL 12.1569

• Matagh (Animal Sacrifice) - Armenia 2009.JPG

  Matagh of a rooster at the entrance of a monastery church (Alaverdi, Armenia, 2009), with inset of bloody steps.

• Traditional Christmas meal on Margarita Island.jpg

  Christmas goat sacrifice in Isla de Margarita, Venezuela