Mithraeum of Sidon

About the Mithraeum at Sidon (Saida), the article of the journalist Durighello, which has been published again by Reinach, does not give satisfactory explanation. Part of his statements, especially those about the finds, is based on the truth; according to de Ridder, however, one has demesurement grossi l’importance d’une decouverte reelle. Beside the statues, niches are mentioned, in which they shall have been placed, and a tesselated floor.

According to the seleucid era the Mithraeum must have existed in the second century, assuming, however, the autonomic era of the city itself…