Monuments from Turkey

Mount Nemrut or Nemrud is one of the highest peaks in the eastern Taurus Mountains, southeastern Turkey. On its summit large statues stand around what is supposed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BC.

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Mithras became the main deity worshipped in the sanctuary of Meter in Kapikaya, Turkey, in Roman times, at least until the fourth century.

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The Mithraeum of Pamphylia was cut back into the rock to form a cave, with a separate relief of Mithras killing the bull.

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Antiochus I of Commagene shakes Mithras hands in this relief from the Nemrut Dagi temple.

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The Mithraea of Doliche, ancient Dülük, Turkey, are unique in that they represent two distinct shrines on the same site.

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This inscription by Luccius Crispus was found near the entrance of the Mithraeum at Pamphylia.

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The lion relief from Nemrut Dag has the moon and several stars over his body.

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The colossal head has been identified as a solar god, Apollo-Mihr-Mithras-Helios-Hermes.

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A Mithraeum was discovered in 2007, during the excavations at the Zerzevan Castle.

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The bronze medallion, from Cilicia, shows Mithras Tauroctonus on the revers.

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The mithraic relief of Baris, current Turkey, depicts a proto version of the Tauroctony with a winged Mithras surrounded by two Victories.

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