Monuments of Syria

The City of Darkness unique fresco from the Mithraeum of Hawarte shows the tightest links between the western and eastern worship of Mithras in Roman …

TNMM344

From Syria

This relief of Mithras as bull slayer is surrounded by Cautes and Cautopates with their usual torch plus an oval object.

TNMM224 – CIMRM 71

From Syria

Three plaster altars within the main altar of the Mithraeum of Dura Europos, two of them with traces of fire and cinders.

TNMM731 – CIMRM 35, 36

From Syria

According to F. Cumont, the Bedouins told a legend from which Nöldeke concluded that the castle of Quasr-ibn-Wardân was a fort with a mithraeum.

TNMM350 – CIMRM 73

From Syria

This inscription by a certain Ioulianos, found at the entrance to the Dolichenum at Dura Europos, bears an inscription to Zeus Helios Mithras et Tourm…

TNMM661 – CIMRM 70

From Syria

The main relief of Mithras killing the bull from the Mithraeum of Dura Europos includes three persons named Zenobius, Jariboles and Barnaadath.

TNMM298 – CIMRM 40, 41

From Syria

'Hail to Kamerios the Pater' can be read on one of the walls of the mithraeum at Dura Europos.

TNMM614 – CIMRM 67

From Syria

The text mentions a certain Kamerios, described as immaculate miles.

TNMM467 – CIMRM 59

From Syria

One of the reliefs of the Dura Europos tauroctonies includes several characters with their respective names.

TNMM179 – CIMRM 37, 38

From Syria

This short dipinto pays homage to the Lions and the Persians, the 4th and 5th Mithraic degrees.

TNMM613 – CIMRM 58

From Syria