Trabzon is a city on the Black Sea coast of northeastern Turkey and the capital of Trabzon Province. Historically known as Trebizond, the city was founded in 756 BC as Trapezous by colonists from Miletus. It was added into the Achaemenid Empire by Cyrus the Great and was later part of the independent Kingdom of Pontus that challenged Rome until 68 BC. Thenceforth part of the Roman and later Byzantine Empire, the city was the capital of the Empire of Trebizond, one of the successor states of the Byzantine Empire after the Fourth Crusade in 1204. In 1461 it came under Ottoman rule.
Brothers active in Trapezus
Mithraic monuments of Trapezus
Medallions with Mithras from Trapezus
These bronze medallions associates the image of several Roman emperors with that of Mithras, usually as a rider, in the province Pontus.
References
- Bricault, Veymers, Amoroso et al. (2021) The Mystery of Mithras. Exploring the heart of a Roman cult
- Bricault; Roy (2021) Les cultes de Mithra dans l'Empire Romain
- Cassius Dio (229) Historia Romana
- Maarten Jozef Vermaseren (1960) Mithra, ce dieu mystérieux
- Paloma Aguado García (2001) El culto de Mitra en la época de Caracalla
- Wildwings.com (2022) Ancient Coinage of Pontos, Trapezus
