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Monumentum

Cultores Inscription from Tiddis

Inscription recording the dedication of a mithraeum at Tiddis by a group of cultores who built the sanctuary at their own expense.

Mithraic inscription from Tiddis, Bni Hamden.
The New Mithraeum / Jona Lendering (CC BY-SA)

The New Mithraeum

7 Dec 2025

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Inscription fixed into a wall beside a cave, hewn out in the rock. This cave lies about 40 meters South of the gate of Tiddis-Kheneg along the paved main-road.L.H. 0.05-0.03.I(nvicto) M(ithrae) cultore/s de suo a s/olo / (a)edifi[c]arun(t).

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