Installed 16 Sep 2011. Latest update 03 May 2019.
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The Mithraeum at Caesarea Maritima
Area CV Block Plan of Excavation Units 1991-1992. (The Mithraeum is represented by the longer black rectangle.)
Google Earth KMZ overlay courtesy of Bill Isenberger.
This drawing is based on descriptions in: Bull, R. J. (1975) The Mithraeum at Caesarea Maritima.
Acta Iranica, 4: 75-89, Blakely, J. A. (1987) The Joint Expedition to Caesarea Maritima,
Excavation Reports, Volume IV, The Pottery and Dating of Vault 1: Horreum, Mithraeum and
Later Uses, The Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, New York, USA and Queenston, Ontario, Canada,
and on photographic analysis of the vault interior (the splay area) conducted in 2011-2012.
The height of the roman in toga is 5.2 feet (1.58 meters).