The evidence documented in Mauretania Tingitana illustrates the western diffusion of Mithraic cults through ports, frontier mobility and communication networks across the Strait of Gibraltar. The province occupied a strategic position between Africa and the Iberian Peninsula.
People attested in Mauretania Tingitana
Places in Mauretania Tingitana
Volubilis
Volubilis is a partly-excavated Berber-Roman city in Morocco situated near the city of Meknes that may have been the capital of the Kingdom of Mauretania, at least from the time of King Juba II.
Inscriptions from Mauretania Tingitana
Plaque of Meknès
Pro salute et incolumitate imp[eratoris] Caesaris / L[ucii] Aeli[i] Aurel[ii] Commodi Pii invicti feli/cis Herculis Romani imperioque / eius Aur[elius] Nectorega [centurio] vex[illariorum] Britt[onum] / Volubili agentium sua pecunia / invicto posuit et d[e]d[icavit].
For the salvation and safeguard of the Emperor Caesar Augustus, Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus, pious, invincible, happy, Roman Hercules, and under his imperium, Aurelius Nectoreca, centurion of the Breton vexillation stationed at Volubilis, at his own expense, for the Invincible, has deposited and dedicated.
Altar from Meknès
I[nvicto] d[eo] M[ithrae] / Aur[elius] Nectore/ga [centurio] vex[illariorum] Brit[tonum] / Volubili / agentium / l[ibens] l[aetus] merito.
