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The Rock-Cut Mithraea of Arupium (Dalmatia)

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ID3938675
AuthorsRoger Beck (corresponding author)
Year1984
Volume38
Issue4
Pages356
Publication date1984-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhoenix (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0031-8299 • E-ISSN: 1929-4883
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1088381
OpenAlexW2335041185
LanguageEN
Citations received3

T HE FIRST OBJECTIVE OF THIS ARTICLE is to lay a ghost-or rather, a pair of ghosts. The ghosts are two Mithraic monuments listed under a single entry as no. 1850 in the basic inventory of the cult's remains, M. J. Vermaseren's Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae (CIMRM).1 They do not appear in L. Zotovic's more recent catalogue of the Mithraic monuments of Jugoslavia,2 but since they are neither explicitly disposed of there nor their origin explained, it seems that some more positive exorcism is called for. Undertaking that rite will lead to my second objective, which is to discuss the two interesting-and very real-monuments from which the ghosts first emanated. The two items of CIMRM 1850 are among the monuments listed under Arupium, which is the name of the Roman municipium occupying the valley of the Gacka river in the mountains of Dalmatia.3 Vermaseren's comments on the pair are brief and tantalizing

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Unique citing works3
Citations per year0,11
Citation span1998 - 2026 (29)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 3

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