The Apis Bull (Oedipus Aegyptiacus)

The image shows a side profile of a bull, rendered in a simplified, schematic line-art style typical of 17th-century woodcuts. The bull is depicted with visible skeletal contours along its ribcage and shoulder. Between its horns rests a circular solar disk containing three vertical, plant-like or feather-like elements. The background consists of partially visible, faded Latin text, indicating the figure is a plate from a larger printed volume.

This image appears in Athanasius Kircher’s 'Oedipus Aegyptiacus', a massive synthesis of Egyptology, hermetic philosophy, and comparative religion that attempted to decode hieroglyphics as a symbolic language containing the prisca theologia.