Mithras in Mesopotamia

Hatra Temple

The city of Hatra was famed for its fusion of several civilization cults, which several temples devoted to gods from all Indo-European world.

Fragments of a column base from Hamadan

The base of the column bears an inscription that records the rebuilding of a palace at Ectabana ’by the favour of Ahuramaza, Anahita and Mithra’.

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Relieve de arcilla del Templo de Hathra

Seal of King Šauštatar of Mitanni

Royal Mitannian seal featuring a winged solar emblem and heroic combat scenes from the cultural milieu in which the earliest attestation of Mitra is found.

Frescoes from Susa

Sassanian-period frescoes discovered at Susa whose possible Mithraic interpretation remains uncertain.

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Possible Mithraeum from Uruk

Large apsidal hall with podium discovered at Uruk-Warka, once interpreted as a possible Mithraic sanctuary.

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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.