Mithraeum of Crimea

TNMM 349 ↔ CIMRM 10

E. von Stern in Klio IX, 1909, 149 n. 3 gives a short notice about the discovery of a Mithraeum at Aitador in Crimea:

Im Aitador, in dem Besitz S. Kaiserl. Hoheit des Grossfürsten Alexander Michailowicz, sind bei den Ausgrabungen, die der sieh für die Archaologie interessierende Grossfürst ausführt, nicht nur die Reste eines romischen Lagers, sondem auch eines Tempels mit Votivgaben und eines Mithräums aufgedeckt worden.

In Aitador, in the possession of His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Alexander Michailowicz. Highness of the Grand Duke Alexander Michailowicz, the excavations carried out by the Grand Duke, who is interested in archaeology, have uncovered not only the remains of a Roman camp, but also of a temple with votive offerings and a Mithraeum.

This sanctuary of the Persian god is said to have been published by Rostovtzeff in IIKA 40, 1911, 1ff, but up to now we have not yet succeeded in consulting this article.

CIMRM II 10

When CIMRM I was published, it was impossible to consult the article by Rostovtzeff in IIKA 40, 1911, 12ff in which he describes some Mithraic monuments of Aitodor (and not Aitador) north of Charax. Prof. Le Roy A. Campbell kindly sent me positive prints of the article which was translated in the Archaeological Institute at Bucarest. I do not know, however, where the monuments are preserved. It is clear, that at Aitodor there was a sanctuary of the Thracian Rider-God in which Mithras was worshipped as well. This sanctuary was situated outside the Roman castellum which lies near the Sea. In Aitodor was a statio of the beneficiarii.

(M. Rostovtzeff, Das Heiligtum der thrakischen Götter und die Inschriften der beneficiarii in Aï-Todor in IIKA XL 1911, 1ff; cf. B. W. Pharmakowsky in AA 1911, 235f).