Monuments of 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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Stele representing Apollo-Mithras-Helios in a Hellenistic nude fashion, shaking hands with Antiochus I.

Some authors have speculated that the flying figure dressed in oriental style and holding a globe could be Mithras.

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

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This monumental head of Antionchus I of Commenage is in Nemrut Dağı together with other representations of the Greco-Iranian king.

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

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These bronze medallions associates the image of several Roman emperors with that of Mithras, usually as a rider, in the province Pontus.

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

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