Monumentum
Mithraeum of Skikda
Many of the inscriptions and sculptures of the site were kept in a museum which has been destroyed.
Aion of Skikda.
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Silvanus of Skikda
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Mithraic rock and vase from Rusicade
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The New Mithraeum
10 Jun 2009
Updated on Dec 2025
In 1845 a Mithraeum was discovered at Rusicade on the slope of the hill Bou Vala, NW of Philippeville, in the garden of Nobelly. About its architecture we have only a few data by Fenech, Histoire de Philippeville, s.d. 33ff, who "a une portion de canal recelait ces statues." Of its interior we know more through the sculptures found in it, all of which is now in the Museum at Philippeville. According to an information of Dr. L. Leschi, to whose kind intercession we also owe our reproductions, a bust of Caracalla (211-217) has been found in the neighbourhood, which might be an important…
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