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Offering up a sacrifice

Offering up a sacrifice


‎The relief shows an altar in the middle, and bulls that were to be sacrificed on this altar behind and in front of it. In the Roman period, ritual sacrifices played a prominent role in cultic rites.
Acts 14:12–13, Acts 14:18; 1 Cor 10:20; Heb 8:4

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