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	The typical mithraeum was [264×193] The typical mithraeum was a small rectangular subterranean chamber on the order of 75 feet by 30 feet with a vaulted ceiling An aisle usually ran lengthwise down the center of the temple with a stone bench on either side two or three feet high on which the cult s members would recline during their meetings On average a mithraeum could hold perhaps twenty to thirty people at a time At the back of the mithraeum at the end of the aisle was always found a representation usually a carved relief but sometimes a statue or painting of the central icon of Mithraism the so called tauroctony or bull slaying scene in which the god of the cult Mithras accompanied by a dog a snake a raven and a scorpion is shown in the act of killing a bull Other parts of the temple were decorated with various scenes and figures There were many hundreds perhaps thousands of Mithraic temples in the Roman empire The greatest concentrations have been found in the city of Rome itself and in those places in the empire often in the most distant frontiers where Roman soldiers who made up a major segment of the cult s membership were stationed Publishing origin
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