Mithraic Studies: Proceedings of the First International Congress of Mithraic Studies, Volume 1

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John R. Hinnells
Manchester University Press, 1975 - Mithraism - 560 pages
 

Contents

The Dura Mithraeum
246
Preface by Sir Harold Bailey page ix
254
Mithra and Mesopotamia
275
Abbreviations xvii
278
Mitra in India
288
Reflections on the bullslaying scene
290
The Mithraic cult meal in its Greek and Roman environment
313
Second plenary discussion
352
A magical Time
446
A Mithraic figure from Beirut
466
The idea of the judgement of the dead in the ancient Near East
470
Mithraism and the Gundestrup bowl
494
some iconographical similarities
507
Mithra Lord of Lands
4
Mihragān among the Irani Zoroastrians
8
The plates between pages 524 and 525
41

MithraVerehrung MithrasKult und die Existenz iranischer Mysterien
378
Cautes and Cautopates the Mithraic torchbearers
406
Mithraic graffiti from DuraEuropos
424

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