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Patras

Patras is Greece's third-largest city and the regional capital and largest city of Western Greece, in the northern Peloponnese, 215 km west of Athens.

Mithraic monuments of Patras

 

Tauroctony from Aigio

The Tauroctony of Patras was found years before the temple over which the relief of Mithras sacrificing the bull was supposed to preside.

CIMRM 2351

Inscriptions from Patras

Tauroctony from Aigio

Soli invic/to milites/ ..... uist/ .... esarcus.
The soldiers [dedicated this] to Sol Invictus; … Vist… … Esarcus.
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