CIMRM 28 - General view of Nemrud Dag, Asia Minor.


From: Flickr. By Szentpetery Gabor, 2008.

From: here.

See also the International Nemrud Foundation website.

A curious syncretistic monument was erected on the hill of Nemrud-Dagh in eastern Turkey by Antiochus I of Commagene. This features statues of deities, each given both a Greek and a Persian name. Persian Mithra (not Mithras) is one of these.

CIMRM entry


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