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The New Mithraeum Database

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Socius

Peter Mark Adams

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

Monumentum

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.

Locus

Ḫattuša (Boğazkale)

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

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Şehitkamil (Gaziantep)

New evidence for the cult of Mithras and the religious practices of Legio IV Scythica at the Roman frontier city of Zeugma on the Euphrates.

Monumentum

Mithraea of Dülük

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

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Dülük

Rock-cut tauroctony forming the cult image of Mithraeum I at Doliche, later deliberately defaced by Christian iconoclasts.

Syndexios

Μᾶρκος Αὐρήλιος Σέλευκος

Lifelong pater of Mithras in Anazarbus, holding the civic title Father of the Homeland.

Locus

Ḫattuša (Boğazkale)

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

Monumentum

Bronze medallion of Gordian III with tauroctony

The bronze medallion, from Cilicia, shows Mithras Tauroctonus on the revers.

Locus

Iconium (Konya)

Iconium, modern Konya, became one of the principal urban centres of Lycaonia and an important crossroads of central Anatolia.

Locus

Ariaramneia

A settlement of Cappadocia located within the inland communications network of central Anatolia during the imperial period.

Locus

Pergamum (Bergama)

Pergamon or Pergamum, also referred to by its modern Greek form Pergamos, was a rich and powerful ancient Greek city in Aeolis.

Locus

Amorium (Hisarköy)

Amorium, also known as Amorion, was a city in Phrygia, Asia Minor which was founded in the Hellenistic period, flourished under the Byzantine Empire, and declined after the Arab sack of 838.

Locus

Emir Ghasi (Emirgazi)

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

Locus

Tyana (Tyana)

Tyana, earlier known as Tuwana during the Iron Age, and Tūwanuwa during the Bronze Age, was an ancient city in the Anatolian region of Cappadocia, in modern Kemerhisar, Niğde Province, Central Anatolia, Turkey.

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Arsameia (Eski Kâhta)

Arsameia on the Nymphaios is an ancient city located in Old Kâhta in Kâhta district, Adıyaman Province, Turkey.

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