Rock-cut Mithraeum near Prozor

At a distance of about a quarter of an hour's walk from the Veliki Vitalj in the plain between two by-ways of the mainroad there is a space which is enclosed by several rocks which has served as a Mithraeum (Patsch, Lika, 83f and fig. 31; Brunšmid in Vjesnik V, 1901, 110ff and fig. 71).In the east side is a natural niche (H. 1.60 Br. 1.58 D. 0.70) in which is an elevation (H. 0.80). Above it in the arched niche-wall a representation of Mithras as a bullkiller is carved out (H. 0.215). The dog is present, but no other animal. On either side Cautes (r) and Cautopates (l)…