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Monumentum

Rock inscription of Sagarios at Farasha

Rock inscription of Sagarios, strategus of Ariaramneia, recording a Mithraic ceremony near Farasha (ancient Ariaramneia), Cappadocia, likely 1st century A.D.
 
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
Near Frasha (Τά Φάρασα), situated near the Zamanti-Sou, on a considerable height a grotto has been hewn out, which can be reached by way of a flight of steps. This may have been a Mithraeum. An inscription hewn out in the rock one and a half miles upstream opposite the so-called "Earthen Bridge" is certainly mithraic. Grégoire in CRAI 1908, 445 thinks it probable that the inscription dates from the first century of our era (cf. Cumont, M. As. Min., 68).Σαγάριος / Μαγ[αρέ]νου / στρατηγός / Ἀριαρμνεί(ας) / ἐμάγευσε Μίθρῃ…

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