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Surroundings:

Mithreum I, DolicheNecropolis of DolicheDoliche, mosaic floor of a late antique buildingStone quarry of DolicheDoliche QuarryRock cut church at DolicheDülük Baba TepesiDülük Baba Tepesi, Altar of TurmasgadeDülük Baba Tepesi, Altar of TurmasgadeStele of Doliche

Location:

  • Türkiye, Dülük
  • geo:37.175682,37.362244
  • Location ± 25-100 m.

Period or year:

  • 50~ / 2xx~

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

Annotations

The Doliche Mithraeum was discovered in 1997 below the ancient mound of Doliche. The temple was erected in a cave of an abandoned quarry.

See:

  1. Roger Beck, Beck on Mithraism: Collected Works with New Essays, Ashgate Pub., 2004, p. 14.
  2. http://www.doliche.de/doliche/das-stadtgebiet/mithraeen/
  3. CIMRM Supplement - Twin Mithraea from Doliche, Commagene, Turkey
  4. Engelbert Winter, Mithraism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, in S. Mitchell and G. Greatrex (eds), Ethnicity and Culture in Late Antiquity, London, 2000, pp. 173-82.
  5. Miguel John Versluys, Visual Style and Constructing Identity in the Hellenistic World: Nemrud Dagi and Commagene under Antiochos I, Cambridge University Press 2017, pp.88-90

Nearby

Doliche [Dülük] TR

Ancient necropolis.

Doliche, Teshub Temple

Doliche, Teshub Temple


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