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* the form mi-it-ra -, found in an inscribed peace treaty between the Hittites and the kingdom of Mitanni, from about 1400 BC.

However, she also says that although recent studies have minimized the Iranizing aspects of the self-consciously Persian religion " at least in the form which it attained under the Roman empire ", the name Mithras is enough to show " that this aspect is of some importance ".

She also says that " the Persian affiliation of the Mysteries is acknowledged in the earliest literary references to them.