The New Mithraeum Database of Turkey

Professional author with a special interest in Greco-Roman ritual and sacred landscapes, art and philosophy.

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academic researcher and documentarist

The colossal head has been identified as a solar god, Apollo-Mihr-Mithras-Helios-Hermes.

TNMM275 – CIMRM 29

Mount Nemrut or Nemrud is one of the highest peaks in the eastern Taurus Mountains, southeastern Turkey. On its summit large statues stand around what is supposed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BC.

TNMM79 – CIMRM 28

This eulogy of Saint Eugene of Trapezos tells how, in the time of Diocletian, he and two other Christian fellows destroyed a statue of Mithras.

TNMM611 – CIMRM 14

Callimorphus dedicated this image of the sun god to the invincible sun 'Mythra'.

TNMM35 – CIMRM 17

The Mithraea of Doliche, ancient Dülük, Turkey, are unique in that they represent two distinct shrines on the same site.

TNMM172

A Mithraeum was discovered in 2007, during the excavations at the Zerzevan Castle.

TNMM218