CIMRM Supplement - The "Elephant Tomb", Carmona. Spain.

Carmona, Tomb of the Elephant, banks and statue. From: Livius.org. By Jan van Vliet.

The so-called "Elephant tomb" in the Roman cemetary in Carmona has been identified as a Mithraeum in one paper, based upon arguments about orientation with respect to the constellations:

Alejandro Jiménez Hernández, Inmaculada Carrasco Gómez. "La Tumba del Elefante de la Necrópolis Romana de Carmona. Una revisión necesaria desde la Arqueología de la Arquitectura y la Arqueoastronomía." In: Archivo Español de Arqueología 85, (2013) 119 DOI: 10.3989/aespa.085.012.007.


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