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Mithras statuette from Carthage

Statuettes of eastern deities including Mithras, found in a walled compartment near a Punic cemetery at Duimes, Carthage.

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Updated on May 2026

According to AA 1900, 63 a mosaic with lion and panther was found near an old Punian cemetery at Duimes. When this was being cleared away, they found a walled up compartment. Among debris from the Christian era, a number of statuettes of eastern deities was found, a.o. of Mithras. Further particulars about this are not known to us.

CIMRM II 118
P. Gauckler in CRAI 1899, 156ff (cf. BATH 1899, CLXI and G. Ch. Picard in BATH 1946–9, 366) mentions the find of an underground room in which statuettes in marble and in terracotta of various divinities were discovered. The room dates from the end of the fourth century A.D…

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