The New Mithraeum Database in Libya

The Mithraic nature of the frescoes of Oea, according to the scholars Cumont and Vermaseren, is now questioned.

TNMM575 – CIMRM 113, 114

Cyrene or Kyrene, was an ancient Greek and later Roman city near present-day Shahhat, Libya.

Oea was an ancient city in modern-day Tripoli, Libya, founded by the Phoenicians in the 7th century BC. It became a Roman-Berber colony in the second half of the 2nd century BC.

The Mithraeum of Cyrene is preserved among the remarkable ruins of the ancient capital of the Roman province of Cyrene.

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Marble head (H. 0.15), found under the threshold of the Iseum at Cyrene.

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Damaged statue.

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Statue (H. 2.03) in red, local limestone.

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L.

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From the Forum Vetus "dalla parte della Basilica scavata da Guidi" comes a second base of the same limestone and with the same inscription (L.H. 0.028).

TNMM853 – CIMRM 110

Small marble head.

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Giacomo Caputo writes us about an inscription, discovered at the Roman Fort of Bu-Ngem by the British School at Rome: "e su chiave d'arco".

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Prof.

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According to AA 1900, 63 a mosaic with lion and panther was found near an old Punian cemetery at Duimes.

TNMM857 – CIMRM 118

In the upper layer of the "tophet" at Carthago, under which a very old sanctuary was situated, a small Mithras-relief was found by Cintas in 1949 (Br. 0.50).

TNMM858 – CIMRM 119

Ph.

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