Abstract
The author examines the reasons for the presence of Julianus Apostata and Mithra together on the investiture relief of Ardashir II at Taq-i Bustan. Roman literary and numismatic sources serve to illustrate Julianus Apostata’s syncretic religious background, his relation to the Mithraic cult and the significance of the celestial bull on his coins. Although this combination of Sol-Helios-Mithra differs, as the author shows, in many ways from the Persian Mithra, it is suggested that the Persian ...
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