The Mithraic material documented in Mesopotamia reflects the movement of religious practices through military campaigns, frontier settlements and communication routes extending beyond the Euphrates. The evidence contributes to understanding the eastern horizons of Roman Mithraic circulation.
People attested in Mesopotamia
Places in Mesopotamia
Nuzi
Nuzi at modern Yorghan Tepe, Iraq was an ancient Mesopotamian city 12 kilometers southwest of the city of Arrapha and 70 kilometers southwest of Sātu Qala, located near the Tigris river.
Sumere
Founded on the east bank of the Tigris, Sumere is mentioned in Roman sources as a fortified settlement during the Persian campaign of Julian in 363 CE, notably by Ammianus Marcellinus.
Susa
Susa was an ancient city in the lower Zagros Mountains about 250 km east of the Tigris, between the Karkheh and Dez Rivers in Iran.
Uruk
Uruk, the archeological site known today as Warka, was an ancient city in the Near-East or West-Asia, located east of the current bed of the Euphrates River, on an ancient, now-dried channel of the river in Muthanna Governorate, Iraq.
