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Monumentum

Mithraeum of Tiddis

The Mithraeum was housed in a cave. The vault is almost dome-shaped and in front of the cave there is enough space for a possible adjacent temple.
  • Entrance to the Mithraeum of Tiddis

    Entrance to the Mithraeum of Tiddis
    James Patterson 

  • Inscription at the Mithraeum of Tiddis

    Inscription at the Mithraeum of Tiddis
    James Patterson 

  • Entrance to the Mithraeum of Tiddis

    Entrance to the Mithraeum of Tiddis
    Empires of Faith 

  • Phallus cock from Tiddis Mithraeum

    Phallus cock from Tiddis Mithraeum
    James Patterson 

  • Second mithraic phallus of Tiddis.

    Second mithraic phallus of Tiddis.
    The New Mithraeum / Joan Lendering (CC BY-NC-SA) 

 
Jorge Gallo
21 May 2021
Updated on Nov 2024

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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).

Berthier believes, that the Mithraeum has been in the cave. The vault is almost dome-shaped and in front of the cave there is room enough for a possible adjacent temple.

Also a phallos was found here, represented on a piece of rock in the form of parallelepiped (H. 0.49). But this phallos has been represented in such way, that it bears a

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