The New Mithraeum Database in Syria

Al-Ankawi is a Syrian town located in the Ziyarah Subdistrict of the al-Suqaylabiyah District in Hama Governorate.

Dura-Europos was a Hellenistic, Parthian and Roman frontier city built on the Euphrates River. It was founded around 300 BC by Seleucus I Nicator. The Romans took Dura-Europos in 165 AD.

Jabal al-Druze, officially Jabal al-Arab, is an elevated volcanic region in the As-Suwayda Governorate of southern Syria.

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.

Senator and Pater Sacrorum of Mithras, who consecrated several monuments in Rome in the late 4th century.