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Frescoes from Susa

Sassanian-period frescoes discovered at Susa whose possible Mithraic interpretation remains uncertain.
 
The New Mithraeum
25 May 2026

TNMM 1433 ↔ CIMRM 7b

R. Ghirsman, Nouvelles archéologiques: Les fouilles de Suse 1946–1951 in La Revue des Arts III 1951, 187f gives a stratigraphical survey of Susa. In Town IV (Sassanidian period) frescoes have been found of which the Mithraic origin is questionable (cf. Fasti VI, 1951 (1953) No. 3521).

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