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Locus

Hawarte

Al-Ankawi is a Syrian town located in the Ziyarah Subdistrict of the al-Suqaylabiyah District in Hama Governorate.

Mithraic monuments of Hawarte

 

Mithraeum of Hawarti

The Mithraeum of Hauarte or Hawarte, which preserves colourful frescoes, it’s the latest know and used.

 

Fresco of a knight and a black figure from Hawarte

This painting depicts an Iranian knight holding in a chain a black naked figure with two heads.

 

Mithras rock-birth fresco of Hawarte

In one of Hawarte’s frescoes, the rock birth of Mithras is preceded by Zeus and followed by the young Persian god suspended from a cypress tree.

 

Fresco ‘City of Darkness’ from Hawarte

The City of Darkness unique fresco from the Mithraeum of Hawarte shows the tightest links between the western and eastern worship of Mithras in Roman Syria.

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