 There are also some similarities to the so-called mithraea, the temples of the cult to Mithras, as they are windowless and rectangular in plan.The podium benches that are typical of a "mithraeum", on which initiates could recline when they took part in their ritual meals, do not seem to have existed in "dolichenae".Steinby interprets the podium of the Aventine temple as a "long platform, probably for dedications."