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Notes on the Mithraic small finds from Sarmizegetusa
Notes on the Mithraic small finds from Sarmizegetusa

Author(s): Csaba Szabó
Subject(s): Archaeology
Published by: Editura Mega Print SRL
Keywords: Mithras; mithraeum; ColoniaUlpiaTraianaSarmizegetusa; votive small finds; Roman religion

Summary/Abstract: Between 1882 and 1883 PálKirály and his team excavated the only Mithraic sanctuary (mihraeum)known from ColoniaUlpiaTraianaSarmizegetusa. The mithraeum was published in a separate monograph and invarious articles, attracting also the interest of the international scholarship – entering in the bibliography, asthe „biggest” sanctuary ever found outside Rome. In our article we will present shortly the discovery of thesanctuary focusing especially on those few objects, which were published very laconic, known at the moment asthe only Mithraic small finds from Sarmizegetusa.

  • Issue Year: 28/2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 135-148
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: English