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Painted Parthian inscription on a ceramic sherd possibly referring to Mithras as a bull-slayer.
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25 May 2026
A heavy reddish sherd (H. 0.075 Br. 0.075 D. 0.03) found in room H 2 of M 7 (O. Yale Inv. 42).R. N. Frye, Inscriptions from Dura Europos in Yale Classical Studies XIV, 1955, 199.MTRY GW-MTTNThis Parthian black dipinto seems to mean “of Mithra the bull- ?” The editor writes: ’I thought of ’bull-slayer’, but unfamiliarity with Palmyrene and North Semitic epigraphy prevents further conjecture’. Below the dipinto, at an interval of 0.03, is the following symbol: Fig. 243