The New Mithraeum Database in Syria

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

TNMM32, 681

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

TNMM128, 2023

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

TNMM826 – CIMRM 48

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.

TNMM823 – CIMRM 42

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.

TNMM661 – CIMRM 70, 476

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

TNMM468 – CIMRM 54, 863

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

TNMM34 – CIMRM 34, 3660

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

TNMM759 – CIMRM 62, 573

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.

TNMM344, 661

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

TNMM224 – CIMRM 71, 483

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, 955

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, 406

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, 1326

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

TNMM614 – CIMRM 67, 574

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

TNMM467 – CIMRM 59, 1007

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

TNMM179 – CIMRM 37, 1074

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

TNMM613 – CIMRM 58, 516

In this fresco from Dura Europos, Mithras is represented as a hunter accompanied by the lion and the serpent.

TNMM286 – CIMRM 52, 1092

This enigmatic fresco on top of the main tauroctony shows Mithras killing the bull, accompanied by Cautes and Cautopates, surrounded by burning altars and cypress trees.

TNMM422 – CIMRM 45, 803

Sol watches Mithras as he gazes Mithras gazes up to heaven while sharing the sacred meal.

TNMM203 – CIMRM 49, 1387