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The New Mithraeum Database

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Madauros (M'Daourouch (مداوروش))

Madauros was a Roman-Berber city in Numidia, in present-day Algeria, renowned in antiquity as an important intellectual and educational centre of Roman North Africa.

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Rusicade (Skikda)

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

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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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Diana Veteranorum (Ain Zana)

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

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Cirta (Constantine)

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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Lambaesis (Tazoult تازولت)

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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Icosium (Algiers)

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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Tiddis (Béni Hamidane)

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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Tauroctony relief from Timziouin

This fragmentary tauroctony relief from Timziouin near Saïda depicts Mithras slaying the bull within a cave-like frame, accompanied by the raven, serpent, scorpion, and Cautopates.

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Inscription to Sol Invictus from Zuccabar

This fragmentary inscription from Zuccabar, reused in the wall of the Sidi Abd-el-Kader mosque at Affreville, preserves a dedication to Sol Invictus.

Syndexios

Lucius Apuleius Marcellus

North African author, Platonic philosopher and rhetorician associated with the Mithraic milieu of Ostia.

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Slab with inscription by Publilius Ceionius of Cirta

This inscription shows that Publilius Ceionius, most distinguished man, dedicated a temple to Mithras at Mila, in the modern Constantina, Algeria.

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Silvanus from Skikda

The statue of Skikda has seven holes in his hair for fastening rays.

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Marble statues of Cautes and Cautopates from Rusicade

Two marble statues of Cautes and Cautopates discovered in the Mithraeum of Rusicade, accompanied by symbolic animals including a lion, scorpion, dolphin and bird.

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Altar from Lambaesis by Florus

This altar, found in Tazoult تازولت, Algeria, was dedicated to the god Sol Mithras by a certain Florus.

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Altar from El Gahara by Florus

This altar is dedicated to the god Sol Invictus Mithras by a certain Florus, a veteran of the Legio III Augusta.

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Altar from Lambaesis by Celsianus

This altar found in Lambèse, now Tazoult, Algeria, bears the inscription of a certain Celsianus for the health of two men to the god Sol Unconquered Mithras.

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Mithraic rock and vase from Rusicade

Both objects have a snake winding itself around them.

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Altar from Ain-Zana

This altar was dedicated by a certain Marcus Aurelius Decimus to Sol Mithras and other gods in Diana, Numibia, present Argelia.

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Inscription by Decimus from Lambaesis

Slab found at Tazoult-Lambèse dedicated to the Unconquered god Sol Mithras by the governor of Numidia Marcus Aurelius Decimus.

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