The New Mithraeum Database in Libya

Leptis or Lepcis Magna, also known by other names in antiquity, was a prominent city of the Carthaginian Empire and Roman Libya at the mouth of the Wadi Lebda in the Mediterranean.

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.

Lifelong pater of Mithras in Anazarbus, holding the civic title Father of the Homeland.

Soldier of Legio XIII Gemina and strator consularis who dedicated an altar to the invincible Mithras.

Syntrofus, whose Greek cognomen means companion, is part of a modest Mithraic community in Apulum.

First African emperor of Rome (193 – 211), born in Leptis Magna, now Al-Khums in Libya.

Imperial slave who donated an altar to Mithras for the benefit of the emperor Caracalla.

Emperor Caracalla ordered one of Rome’s largest temples to the god Mithras to be built in the baths bearing his name.

Vir perfectissimus and priest of Zeus Brontes and Hecate, he erected a mithraeum in Rome.

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

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

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

Public horseman and consul under the emperor Caracalla, who completed a Mithraeum in Aveia Vestina.

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

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

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

Optio who erected several altars to Mithras in the Mithraeum of Sárkeszi.

Maximus engraved his name in one of the columns of the Mithraeum of Dura Europos.