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Monumentum

Mithraeum of Lambaesis

The Mithraeum of Tazoult / Lambèse is one of the best preserved Mithras’s temples in Africa.
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The New Mithraeum
5 Jul 2009
Updated on May 2026
Leglay in CRAI 1954, 269ff cf. L. Leschi in Actes du 2e Congrès International d’Épigraphie grecque et latine, Paris 1952 (1953), 125 now gives a more detailed description of the Mithraeum (see fig. 247), which is situated at the end of the “avenue sacrée” east of the Asclepieium and its baths with which the Mithras sanctuary is connected at the south side.The sanctuary (L. 16.40 Br. 8.40) running East-West has its entrance at the West side and is accessible by descending two wide steps. The Mithraeum, about one metre deep, has the usual division into a corridor (Br. 4.40) and the two podia (H. 0.80 Br. 2…

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