The Mithraic material associated with the Bosporan Kingdom reflects the region’s position between the Black Sea, the Greek world and the Eurasian frontier zones. Although comparatively limited, the evidence contributes to understanding the northern circulation of Mithraic and related religious practices beyond the central Roman provinces.
Provinces of Regnum Bospori
Chersonesus
Chersonesus occupied a northern Black Sea position where Greek, Roman and frontier cultures intersected at the edges of the Mithraic world.
Places in Regnum Bospori
Ai-Todor
Roman military and religious settlement in Chersonesus Taurica occupied between the 1st and 4th centuries CE, associated with the castellum of Characis.
Panticapaeum
Panticapaeum was an ancient Greek city on the eastern shore of Crimea, which the Greeks called Taurica.
