The corpus from Asia reflects the importance of western Anatolia within the commercial, intellectual and religious networks of the eastern Mediterranean. Major cities and maritime routes played a central role in the diffusion of Mithraic practices across the province.
People attested in Asia
Places in Asia
Pergamum
Pergamon or Pergamum, also referred to by its modern Greek form Pergamos, was a rich and powerful ancient Greek city in Aeolis.
Pessinus
Pessinus was an Ancient city and archbishopric in Asia Minor, a geographical area roughly covering modern Anatolia.
Ἀφροδισιάς
Aphrodisias was a small ancient Greek Hellenistic city in the historic Caria cultural region of western Anatolia, Turkey.
Inscriptions from Asia
Dedication to Mithras from Colophon
Deo sancto invicto Mit(h)rae.
To the holy unconquered god Mithras.
