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Monumentum

Rock sanctuary near Prozor

Rocky pass about twenty minutes south of Prozor, Dalmatia, containing a rock niche with a carved Mithraic scene; probably a secondary cult place related to the Vitalj sanctuary.
 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026

TNMM 2382 ↔ CIMRM 1852

At a distance of about twenty minutes south of the village of Prozor and on the r. bank of a brook there are rocks which form narrow passes (Patsch, Lika, 84 and fig. 32; J. Brunšmid in Vjesnik V, 1901, 112 and fig. 72; LeRoy Campbell in Berytus XI 1954, 45 No. 22).

In one of these passes there is a Mithraeum which has a natural niche (H. 1.40 Br. 1.45) with walls constructed against it. Before the niche is an elevation. On the west part of the niche is a representation of Mithras as a bullkiller with two very small torchbearers. The other figures have got lost by weathering. Behind Cautopates (l) Mithras is being born from the rock with upraised hands in which he holds a torch (l.h.) and a dagger (r.h.).

The last coin is of the reign of Constantius II and Constans (Patsch in WMBH IX, 1904, 268 and n. 2).

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