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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
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…

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