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The most emblematic of the Syrian Mithraea was discovered in 1933 by a team led by the Russian historian Mikhaïl Rostovtzeff.
One of the reliefs of the Dura Europos tauroctonies includes several characters with their respective names.
Sol watches Mithras as he gazes Mithras gazes up to heaven while sharing the sacred meal.
In this fresco from Dura Europos, Mithras is represented as a hunter accompanied by the lion and the serpent.
The main relief of Mithras killing the bull from the Mithraeum of Dura Europos includes three persons named Zenobius, Jariboles and Barnaadath.
Some scholars have speculated that the scrolls both figures hold in their hands represent Eastern doctrines brought to the Western world.
This enigmatic fresco on top of the main tauroctony shows Mithras killing the bull, accompanied by Cautes and Cautopates, surrounded by burning altars and cypress trees.
Antonius Valentinus, centurio, made this plaque for the salut des empereurs Septimus Severus and Marcus Aurelius.
The text mentions a certain Kamerios, described as immaculate miles.
The inscription pays homage to the emperor, probably Caracalla, to Mithras, the fathers, the petitor and the syndexioi.
This short dipinto pays homage to the Lions and the Persians, the 4th and 5th Mithraic degrees.
'Hail to Kamerios the Pater' can be read on one of the walls of the mithraeum at Dura Europos.
This inscription by a certain Ioulianos, found at the entrance to the Dolichenum at Dura Europos, bears an inscription to Zeus Helios Mithras et Tourmasgade.
Three plaster altars within the main altar of the Mithraeum of Dura Europos, two of them with traces of fire and cinders.
A certain Maximus from the Legio IV Scythica engraved his name in one of the columns of the Mithraeum of Dura Europos.
Around the relief with Mithras as a bullkiller, a number of scenes from the Mithras Iegend have been painted in the Mithraeum of Dura Europos.
Painted zodiac signs covering earlier figures in Phrygian cap in the arched niche of the Later Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria, 3rd century A.D.
Fragments of large-scale painted heads belonging to paintings of considerable size, from the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria, 3rd century A.D.
Around the niche of the Dura Europos Mithraeum fragments of a series of small paintings set in a semicircular band of panels were found.
Fragments of wall plaster decorated with green leaves and tree branches, adhering to the south wall of the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria.
Fragment of a figure dressed like Mithras in the banquet scene, found in the rubble of the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria.
Painted inscription naming a tribune Archelao, found on a column or wall of the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria.
Painted inscription naming the patres and other initiates of the Mithraeum, above the podium in the south-west corner of the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria.
Engraved Nâma inscription addressed to Antoninus, a pious syndexios, from the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria.
Engraved inscription naming Maximus as magus, from column 1 of the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria.
Partial list of Mithraic initiatory grade titles attested in inscriptions from the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos.
Fragmentary Greek graffito from Dura-Europos recording the prices of everyday goods such as wine, meat, wood and lamp wicks.
Greek graffiti scratched on wall plaster, recording a list of everyday expenses from Dura-Europos, Roman Syria.
Minute engraved inscription with the words eisodos and exodos (entrance and exit), from column 3 of the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria.
Greek ritual graffito scratched on wall plaster in the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, mentioning the “fiery exhalation” and the “sacred nitre” of the Magi.
Fragmentary inscription on wall plaster from the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria, with partially legible text.
Painted Parthian inscription on a ceramic sherd possibly referring to Mithras as a bull-slayer.
