Monumentum
Mithraic meal from Proložac, Croatia
Mithras and Sol share a sacred meal accompanied by Cautes and Cautopates on a relief found in a cemetery from Croatia.
Mithras feast from Proložac
Museum of Croatian Archaeological Monuments, Split
The New Mithraeum
28 Jul 2021
Updated on 2 Feb 2022
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On one side of the relief, we found the scene of the sacred meal between Mithras and Sol. The most important episode besides the killing of the bull […] is the joint meal of Mithras and Helios/Sol, who lie together on the skin of the bull and, as was customary in antiquity, eat the brewed innards and drink wine with it.