The Mithraic evidence from Achaea reflects the integration of the cult within the urban and intellectual environments of the Greek East. The material documented in the region illustrates the circulation of Mithraic practices through major urban centres connected to trade, mobility and long-standing religious traditions rooted in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds.
People attested in Achaea
Provinces of Achaea
Achaea
Achaea preserves some of the earliest and most culturally complex evidence for Mithraic cults in the Greek-speaking eastern Mediterranean.
Places in Achaea
Andros
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Patras
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Rhodes
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Inscriptions from Achaea
Intaglio of Abraxas and Mithras
* O Adonai, great Abraxas, breath of the seven vowels, IAO, God of Hosts..
Re-used Neolithic axe-head inscribed with a Tauroctony
παπαφειρις
[Second word unkown]
