reality a fragment of a Mithraic liturgy, but here I share the skepticism of Reitzenstein (_Neue Jahrb. f. das class. Altertum_, 1904, p. 192) and I have given my reasons in _Rev. de l'Instr. publ. en Belg._, XLVII, 1904, pp. 1 ff. Dieterich answered briefly in _Archiv f. Religionswis._, VIII, 1905, p. 502, but without convincing me. The author of the passage in question may have been more or less accurate in giving his god the external appearance of Mithra, but he certainly did not know the eschatology of the Persian mysteries. We know, for {261} instance, through positive testimony that they taught the dogma of the passage of the soul through the seven planetary spheres, and that Mithra acted as a guide to his votaries in their ascension to the realm of the blessed. Neither the former nor the latter doctrine, however, is found in the fantastic uranography of the magician. The name of Mithra, as elsewhere that of the magi Zoroaster and Hostanes, helped to circulate an Egyptian forgery., cf. Wendland, _Die hellenistisch-roemische Kultur_, 1907, p. 168, n. 1. See on this controversy Wuensch's notes in the 2d ed. of the _Mithrasliturgie_, 1910, pp. 225 ff.--A considerable number of new monuments have been published of late years (the mithreum of Saalburg by Jacobi, etc.). The most important ones are those of the temple of Sidon preserved in the collection of Clercq (De Ridder, _Marbres de la collection de C._, 1906, pp. 52 ff.) and those of Stockstadt published by Drexel (_Der obergerm. Limes_, XXXIII, Heidelberg, 1910). In the following notes I shall only mention the works or texts which could not be utilized in my earlier researches. 1. Cf. Petr. Patricius, _Excerpta de leg._, 12 (II, p. 393, de Boor ed.). 2. Cf. Chapot, _Les destinees de l'hellenisme au dela l'Euphrate_ (_Mem. soc. antiq. de France_), 1902, pp. 207 ff. 3. Humbert in Daremberg and Saglio, _Dictionnaire_, s. v. "Amici," I, p. 228 (cf. 160). Cf. Friedlaender, _Sittengesch._, I, pp. 202 ff. 4. Cf. _L'Eternite des empereurs romains_ (_Rev. d'hist. et de litt. relig._, I), 1896, p. 442.