The origins of Mithraism as a Roman cult are not fully understood. It clearly derives from ancient Persia in some way, but scholars are divided on whether the Roman cult is a westernized Persian religion or an essentially western religion with Persian trimmings. There exist material testimonies of the practice of this religion in numerous places of the former Roman Empire: in Rome and in Ostia, as well as in Mauritania, Britannia and the frontier provinces along the river Rhine and of the Danube, consisting of remains of temples, inscriptions and works of art that they represent to the god or other aspects of the religion.
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