The material documented in Chersonesus contributes to understanding the circulation of religious practices across the Black Sea and the northern frontier regions connected to the Bosporan world. Although comparatively limited, the evidence illustrates long-distance cultural and commercial interactions beyond the central Roman provinces.
Mithraic monuments of Chersonesus
Two Mithras-Attis terracotta from Kerch
Terracotta tablets depicting a Taurombolium by Attis which might be at the origins of the mithraic Tauroctony iconography.
CIMRM 11
Places in Chersonesus
Panticapaeum
Panticapaeum was an ancient Greek city on the eastern shore of Crimea, which the Greeks called Taurica.
References
- Bricault; Roy (2021) Les cultes de Mithra dans l'Empire Romain
