Iconography of Mithras from Surkh Kotal to Bourg-Saint-Andéol

Document Type : Book Review

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PhD of Ancient Iranian languages and culture, Yerevan, Armenia.

Abstract

Many researchers have researched the ritual of Mithraism and various articles and books have been written in this field in different languages in different years by these researchers. However, this mysterious ritual is still the research issue of different researchers and they look at it from different angles. One of the new books in the field of Mithraism studies is the book Images of Mithra, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2017, and sheds new light on the religion of Mithraism from the perspective of iconography. The author reviews this book in this article.

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Ancient Iranian studies
Volume 1, Issue 3 - Serial Number 3
October 2022
Pages 105-115

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  • Receive Date: 29 June 2022
  • Accept Date: 27 August 2022

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