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.
Mithraic monuments of Regnum Bospori
Two Mithras-Attis terracotta from Kerch
Terracotta tablets depicting a Taurombolium by Attis which might be at the origins of the mithraic Tauroctony iconography.
CIMRM 11
Places in Regnum Bospori
Panticapaeum
Panticapaeum was an ancient Greek city on the eastern shore of Crimea, which the Greeks called Taurica.
References
- Bricault; Roy (2021) Les cultes de Mithra dans l'Empire Romain
