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Mithras in Arabia

Arabia connected the Roman Near East to caravan routes, desert frontiers and the commercial networks of the southern Levant.

The evidence documented in Arabia illustrates the circulation of Mithraic cults through military installations, urban centres and long-distance trade routes extending across the eastern frontier of the Roman empire.

Mithraic monuments of Arabia

 

Tauroctony from Sî`

In the tauroctony of Jabal al-Druze in Syria, the snake appears to be licking the head of the bull's penis.

CIMRM 88

 

Second tautoctony of Sî`

The second tauroctony of Jabal al-Druze seems to have be made by the same sculptor.

CIMRM 89

Places in Arabia

 

Secia

Jabal al-Druze, officially Jabal al-Arab, is an elevated volcanic region in the As-Suwayda Governorate of southern Syria.

Inscriptions from Arabia

Second tautoctony of Sî`

D[eo] S[oli] I[nvicto]
To the god Sol Invictus.
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