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Episode 202 - Roman reverence at the Temple of Mithras

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The Mithraic Temple at Karabroof

Because of its location it became waterlogged and that process began in the Roman period. And so it was altered on several occasions in fact but if we can simplify that there seemed to have been three Mithraic temples on the same site at Karabroof over that 150 years. The first one was actually quite small so half the size of the surviving building that I've just described. So tiny. How many people you'd get in there probably a dozen at most. And then it was almost doubled inside so this is Mithraium 2 if you like to double the size ofThe original. In that building we know had two major internal refits in its life. All the internal

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