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In the upper layer of the "tophet" at Carthago, under which a very old sanctuary was situated, a small Mithras-relief was found by Cintas in 1949 (Br. 0.50).
From the Forum Vetus "dalla parte della Basilica scavata da Guidi" comes a second base of the same limestone and with the same inscription (L.H. 0.028).
Greek ritual graffito scratched on wall plaster in the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, mentioning the “fiery exhalation” and the “sacred nitre” of the Magi.