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The New Mithraeum Database

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Aphrodisius Corneliorum

Aphrodisius, probably of Greek origin, must have been a slave of the Cornelii.

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Publilius Ceionius Caecina Albinus

Vir clarissimus and governor of Numidia, who dedicated a temple to Mithras with its images and ornaments in Cirta.

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Valerius Florus

Governor of Numidia in 303, vir perfectissimus Valerius Florus was a well-known persecutor of Christians.

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Iulius Florus

Centurio of the Legio III Augusta, Florus dedicated an altar to the unconquered Sol Mithras in El Gahra.

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Publius Numidius Decens

Born in North Africa, he dedicated an inscription to the unconquered god Mithras, found in the Forum of Lambasis.

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Marcus Aurelius Decimus

Governor of Numidia between 284 and 285, he dedicated several monuments in Numidia to Mithras and other gods.

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Celsianus

Actuarius and notarius, Celsianus dedicated an altar to Sol Mithras for the health of two illustrious men.

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Marcus Aurelius Sabinus

Pro praetor legate during the reign of Maxime, he dedicated an altar to Mithras in Lambaesis.

 
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Tiddis

Tiddis was a Roman city that depended on Cirta and a bishopric as Tiddi, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see. It was located on the territory of the current commune of Bni Hamden in the Constantine Province of eastern Algeria.

 
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Icosium

Icosium was a Berber city that was part of Numidia which became an important Roman colony and an early medieval bishopric in the casbah area of actual Algiers.

 
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Lambaesis

Lambaesis, Lambaisis or Lambaesa, is a Roman archaeological site in Algeria, 11 km southeast of Batna and 27 km west of Timgad, located next to the modern village of Tazoult.

 
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Cirta

Cirta, also known by various other names in antiquity, was the ancient Berber and Roman settlement which later became Constantina, Algeria.

 
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Diana Veteranorum

Diana Veteranorum, today a village called Ain Zana, was an ancient Roman-Berber city in Algeria.

 
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El-Gahra

The Roman settlement overlooked a passage between the Hodna and the Sahara via the Aïn Rich plain and the valley of the Oued Chaïr, between the Ouled-Naïl and Zab mountains.

 
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Rusicade

Skikda is a city in northeastern Algeria and a port on the Mediterranean.

 
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Aion of Skikda

The lion-headed figure from Rusicade, now Skikda, holds a key in both hands and features a pine cone beside his feet.

 
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Cultores Inscription from Tiddis

Inscription recording the dedication of a mithraeum at Tiddis by a group of cultores who built the sanctuary at their own expense.

 
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Second phallus relief from the Mithraeum of Tiddis

This second relief depicting a phallus from Tiddis, Algeria, has been positioned alongside its counterpart atop pillars that greet visitors to the Mithras shrine.

 
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Phallus relief from the Mithraeum of Tiddis

The phallus from Tiddis, Algeria, has been represented as a cock.

 
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Mithraeum of Tiddis

The Mithraeum was housed in a cave. The vault is almost dome-shaped and in front of the cave there is enough space for a possible adjacent temple.

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