The Avestan Hymn to Mithra: with an introduction, translation and commentary

XIV, 356 pages : 23 cm. Fine green cloth,l acking dust-jacket. University of Cambridge oriental publications, 4. The Avestan Hymn to Mithra, written in the fifth century BC, is the one extensive, ancient literary record of the attributes, companions and cult of the Iranian god whose worship spread, five or six centuries later, as far as Britain. Dr Gershevitch here reproduces Geldner’s text and critical apparatus of the Hymn, adding his own introduction, translation and commentary.