The brazen bull in the Quran?

[Rev. Rye]

I should point out that the history of the Brazen Bull is sketchy. There has never been any hard proof that it was ever used. It was most documented as an alleged torture device invented by Perillos for Phalaris, tyrant of Akragas (now Agrigento), Sicily. Phalaris tested it out by throwing Perillos in it, and Phalaris himself was thrown into it when he was overthrown in 554 BC. Even this is contested, and all the claims it was used after Phalaris' overthrow is sketchy, at best.