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262 THE ORIENTAL RELIGIONS.
disposed to look for the continuity of the Roman tradition,
adds, after setting forth the rules that obtained at the court
of the Parthians: "Alle Ordnungen die mit wenigen Ab-
minderungen bei den romischen Caesaren wiederkehren und
vielleicht zum Teil von diesen der alteren Grossherrschaft
entlehnt sind." Cf. also infra, ch. VIII, n. 19.
6. Friedlander, loc. cit., p. 204; cf. p. 160.
7. Bousset, Die Religion des Judentums im neutestam. Zeit-
alter, 1903 (2d ed. 1906), pp. 453 ff., passim.
8. Cf. Mon. my st. Mithra, I, pp. 21 ff.
9. Cf. infra, ch. VII, pp.
188 ff.
10. Mon. my st. Mithra, I, pp. 9ff., pp. 231 ff.
11. Lactantius, De mort., persec., 21, 2; cf. Seeck, Gcsch. des
Untergangs der antiken Welt, II, pp. 7 ff.
12. Cf. Strzygowski, Mschatta (Jahrb. preuss. Kunstsammlungcn,
XXV), Berlin, 1904, pp. 324 ff., 371 ff. From a com
munication made to the Congress of Orientalists at Copen
hagen (1908) by Father Lammens, it would appear that the
fagade of Mschatta is the work of an Omaiyad kalif of Damas
cus, and Strzygowski s conclusions would, therefore, have to
be modified considerably; but the influence of Sassanid art in
Syria is nevertheless certain; see Dussaud, Les Arabes en
Syrie avant I I slam, 1907, pp. 33, 51 ff.
13. Cf. infra, n. 32.
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15. Lactantius Placidus ad Stat, Theb. IV, 717: "Quae sacra
primum Persae habuertmt, a Persis Phryges, a Phrygibus Ro-
mani."
16. In the Studia Pontica, p. 368, I have described a grotto
located near Trapezus and formerly dedicated to Mithra, but
now transformed into a church. We know of no other
Mithreum. A bilingual dedication to Mithra, in Greek and
Aramaic, is engraved upon a rock in a wild pass near Farasha
(Rhodandos) in Cappadocia. Recently it has been republished