Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929 · Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company · leaf 210
e would chain the god, as it were, to the relics,thus insuring his actual presence wherever they were THE LAND OF HADRIAN 177 preserved. We must remember, apropos of this theory,that when the Mithrseum of Alexandria was suppressedby the Emperor Constantius in 361, a party of Christianinvaders… … What was found in the hiding-place the triangular altar at the eastern end of the l)uilding.It seems that on the consecration day a symljolic imageof the presiding god, or of one of the presiding gods, wasburied in a hiding-place identical in shape with the onedescribed above, and sealed with a…
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