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The New Mithraeum Database

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Locus

Dura Europos (Tal hal Hariri / Es-Sâlihiyeh / As Salhiyah)

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.

Locus

Secia (Jabal al-Druze)

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

Locus

Hawarte (Hawarte)

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

Monumentum

Mithraeum of Hawarte

Late Roman Mithraeum beneath a fourth-century church, preserving one of the most extensive cycles of Mithraic wall paintings ever discovered.

Monumentum

Engraved column by Maximus of Dura Europos

A certain Maximus from the Legio IV Scythica engraved his name in one of the columns of the Mithraeum of Dura Europos.

Monumentum

Mithraeum of Dura Europos

The most emblematic of the Syrian Mithraea was discovered in 1933 by a team led by the Russian historian Mikhaïl Rostovtzeff.

Syndexios

Mareinos

Petitor of the Mithraic congregation at Dura Europos, possibly associated with the decoration of the sanctuary.

Monumentum

Column with inscription from Dura Europos

The inscription pays homage to the emperor, probably Caracalla, to Mithras, the fathers, the petitor and the syndexioi.

Syndexios

Theodoros

One of the two patres named in a communal dedication of the Mithraic congregation at Dura Europos during the reign of Caracalla.

Syndexios

Libeianos

Pater of the Mithraic community of Dura Europos attested in a communal dedication to Mithras and the syndexioi during the reign of Caracalla.

Monumentum

Graffito naming Maximus magus at Dura-Europos

Engraved inscription naming Maximus as magus, from column 1 of the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria.

Syndexios

Maximus

Member of the Mithraic community at Dura-Europos, known from graffiti identifying him as scenicus of the Legio IV Scythica and possibly bearing the title magus.

Syndexios

Ethpheni

Strategos of the Palmyrene archers at Dura Europos and dedicator of the earliest tauroctony relief.

Syndexios

Zenobius

Son of the Palmyrene archer commander Iarhiboles and dedicator of the 170–171 CE tauroctony relief from Dura-Europos.

Syndexios

Iουλιανος

Soldier of the Legio XVI Flavia Firma Antoniana stationed at Dura Europos and known from a dedication to Zeus Helios Mithras and Tourmasgade.

Monumentum

Fresco ‘City of Darkness’ from Hawarte

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 Syria.

Monumentum

List of Mithraic grades from Dura-Europos

Partial list of Mithraic initiatory grade titles attested in inscriptions from the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos.

Monumentum

Graffito with eisodos and exodos at Dura-Europos

Minute engraved inscription with the words eisodos and exodos (entrance and exit), from column 3 of the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria.

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