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The New Mithraeum Database

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Syndexios

Zenobios

Commander of the archers at Dura Europos, he financed the second Tauroctony.

Syndexios

Mareinos

He is the painter of most of the frescoes in the mithraeum of Dura Europos.

Syndexios

Antonius Valentinus

Princeps centurio and commander (praepositus).

Syndexios

Iουλιανος

Soldier of the Legio XVI Flavia Firma Antoniana stationed at Dura Europos.

Syndexios

Libeianos

Syndexios

Ethphani

Commander of a unite of Palmyrene archers stationed with the Roman garrison in Dura Europos.

Syndexios

Kamerios

Kamerios reached the seventh grade in the Mithraic ladder. A couple of graffitis celebrate his achievements in the Mithraeum of Dura Europos.

Syndexios

Theodoros

Pater at Dura Europos

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 65

Greek graffiti scratched on wall plaster, recording a list of everyday expenses from Dura-Europos, Roman Syria.

 
Locus

Hawarte

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

 
Locus

Secia

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

 
Locus

Dura Europos

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.

 
Monumentum

Mithraeum of Ša‘āra

The Mithraeum of Saara, Syria, has been identified through the deciphering of the remains of the iconographic programme on its arch.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Absalmos

The relief depict several unusual scenes from Mithras’s myth.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 48

Around the niche of the Dura Europos Mithraeum fragments of a series of small paintings set in a semicircular band of panels were found.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 42

Around the relief with Mithras as a bullkiller, a number of scenes from the Mithras Iegend have been painted in the Mithraeum of Dura Europos.

 
Monumentum

Inscription to Tourmasgade of Dura Europos

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

 
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.

 
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.

 
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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.

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