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Mithras in Galatia

Galatia occupied the central Anatolian crossroads through which military movement and eastern provincial networks intersected.

Evidence from Galatia illustrates the circulation of Mithraic cults through inland Anatolia and the communication routes linking Cappadocia, Asia and the eastern frontier. The province contributed to the diffusion of religious practices across central Asia Minor.

Mithraic monuments of Galatia

 

Mithraic relief from Baris

The Mithraic relief from Baris, in present-day Turkey, shows what appears to be a proto-version of the Tauroctony, with a winged Mithras surrounded by two Victories.

CIMRM 25

 

Treaty between Šuppiluliuma I and Šattiwaza of Mitanni

Late Bronze Age treaty from Ḫattuša invoking Mitra, Varuna, Indra and the Nāsatyas among the divine witnesses of the Hittite-Mitanni oath.

CIMRM 16

 

Sepulchral inscriptions from Lycaonia

Sepulchral inscriptions from Lycaonia bearing the titles leo and aetos, previously interpreted as Mithraic grades but now understood as referring to tomb architecture.

CIMRM 21

 

Statuette from Emir Ghasi

Rough-hewn statuette found at Emir Ghasi in Lycaonia, once thought to represent a Mithraic soldier; according to Cumont, a modern forgery.

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Places in Galatia

 

Baris

Baris was a town of ancient Pisidia inhabited during Roman and Byzantine times.

 

Emir Ghasi

Emirgazi is a municipality and district of Konya Province, Turkey.

 

Ḫattuša

Capital of the Hittite Empire and discovery site of the earliest securely dated textual attestation of Mitra.

 

Ḫattuša

Hattusa, also Hattuşa, Ḫattuša, Hattusas, or Hattusha, was the capital of the Hittite Empire in the late Bronze Age during two distinct periods.

Inscriptions from Galatia

Treaty between Šuppiluliuma I and Šattiwaza of Mitanni

ilāni Mi-it-ra-aš-ši-il
ilāni U-ru-wa-na-aš-ši-il
ilu In-da-ra
ilāni Na-ša-at-ti-ia-an-na.
The gods Mitra, Varuna, Indra and the Nāsatyas shall be witnesses to this treaty.
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