Notes On the Mithraic Relief from Ozd (Magyarózd, Mureș County, Romania) Cover Image

Notes On the Mithraic Relief from Ozd (Magyarózd, Mureș County, Romania)
Notes On the Mithraic Relief from Ozd (Magyarózd, Mureș County, Romania)

Author(s): Csaba SZABÓ, Szilamér-Péter Pánczel
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, History of ideas, Local History / Microhistory, Ancient World, Theology and Religion
Published by: Editura Mega Print SRL
Keywords: Mithras; relief; Roman; Dacia; rural religion

Summary/Abstract: The Mithraic relief from Ozd (Magyarózd, Mureș County, RO) was first published in the 1960s by A. Zrínyi, almost a decade after the publication of Vermaseren’s paradigmatic Mithraic catalogue. Moving beyond the previously brief, catalogue-style summaries, the present study offers a detailed analysis of the iconographic features of the fragmentary relief, explores the diversity of Mithraic iconography and local expressions of religious glocalisation, and provides an in-depth examination of the topographical and social significance of the findspot, with particular attention to the characteristics of Mithras’ rural cult in nearby military settlements.

  • Issue Year: 2025
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 49-62
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: English
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