Zodiac paintings in the Dura-Europos Mithraeum

The soffit or reveal of the arched niche had been decorated with white stars on a blue background. Near fig. 12, 7 were the remnants of two persons in Phrygian cap and wearing a cape held at the breast by a large brooch (Report, 102 and Pl. XIII, 1, 2). In the Latter Mithraeum, however, they have been covered up by the twelve signs of the zodiac painted in red and white.ILN 1934 fig. 1; GBA 1935 fig. 5, 6; Report, 110.