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Ἀφροδισιάς (Geyre)

Aphrodisias was a small ancient Greek Hellenistic city in the historic Caria cultural region of western Anatolia, Turkey.

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Caesarea (Kayseri)

Caesarea, also known historically as Mazaca, was an ancient city in what is now Kayseri, Turkey.

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Castrum Zerzevan (Diyarbakır's Çınar)

Zerzevan Castle, also known as Samachi Castle, is a ruined Eastern Roman castle, a former important military base, in Diyarbakır Province, southeastern Turkey.

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Nemrut Dağı (Adıyaman)

Mount Nemrut or Nemrud is a 2,134-metre-high mountain in southeastern Turkey, notable for the summit where a number of large statues are erected around what is assumed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BC.

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Trapezus (Trabzon)

Trabzon is a historic city on the Black Sea coast of northeastern Turkey, founded in 756 BC as Trapezous by Greek colonists from Miletus. It passed from Achaemenid control to the Kingdom of Pontus, then became part of the Roman and Byzantine empires.

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Pamphylia (Perge)

Pamphylia was a region in the south of Asia Minor, between Lycia and Cilicia, extending from the Mediterranean to Mount Taurus.

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Doliche (Dülük)

Dülük is a village in Şehitkamil district, a district of Gaziantep, Turkey.

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Peter Mark Adams

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

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Mithra’s statue from Boztepe Hill

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.

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Medallions with Mithras from Trapezus

These bronze medallions associates the image of several Roman emperors with that of Mithras, usually as a rider, in the province Pontus.

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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.

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Lion relief from Nemrut Dağı

The lion relief from Nemrut Dag has the moon and several stars over his body.

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Antiochus I shakes hands with naked Apollo-Mithras-Helios

Stele representing Apollo-Mithras-Helios in a Hellenistic nude fashion, shaking hands with Antiochus I.

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Antiochus I shakes hands with Mithras

Antiochus I of Commagene shakes Mithras hands in this relief from the Nemrut Dagi temple.

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Kemal Koçak

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reşit solmaz

I was born in 1975 in Gaziantep. I graduated from the Department of Public Administration in 2005. In 2009, I started working at the Municipality of Şehitkamil

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Column of Callimorphus

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

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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.

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