The New Mithraeum Database

In his first book, Fahim Ennouhi sheds light on the cult of Mithras in Roman Africa. A marginal and elitist phenomenon, confined to restricted circles and largely absent from local religious dynamics, yet revealing.

Clarissimus knight and legate born in Poetovio that helped to disseminate the cult of Mithras in the African provinces.

Born in North Africa, he dedicated an inscription to the unconquered god Mithras, found in the Forum of Lambasis.

The Mithraic nature of the frescoes of Oea, according to the scholars Cumont and Vermaseren, is now questioned.

Dedication from Simitthus mentioning the restoration of a monument and a vow fulfilled to Cautes and Cautopates during the reign of Caracalla and Julia Maesa.

The Mithraeum of Tazoult / Lambèse is one of the best preserved Mithras’s temples in Africa.

Mithraic Community for the English-speaking world.

Altar, found at the foot of the West-gate of the Roman town at Hr.

Relief (proportion unknown) found in 1861 making excavations in the cavalry barracks at SHif.

At Volubilis not far from the fountain, in which the aquaduct of Fertassa emptied itself, two inscriptions dedicated to Mithras have been found.

Roman emperor and philosopher known for his attempt to restore Hellenistic polytheism.

Dedicated a floor mosaic to his god.

Governor of Numidia in 303, vir perfectissimus Valerius Florus was a well-known persecutor of Christians.

Actuarius and notarius, Celsianus dedicated an altar to Sol Mithras for the health of two illustrious men.

First African emperor of Rome (193 – 211), born in Leptis Magna, now Al-Khums in Libya.

The Mithraeum of the Crypta Balbi was locted in the middle of a densely populated insula near the theatre of Cornelius Balbus.

Cet ouvrage propose une étude d’ensemble du culte de Mithra en Afrique romaine. S’appuyant sur un rigoureux examen croisé des sources épigraphiques, archéologiques et littéraires, il restitue l’histoire et les spécificités de ce culte à mystères sur le sol africain…

Scholar specializing in the history of ancient North Africa, with a particular interest in the Oriental cults (Anatolian, Egyptian, Syrian, and Iranian) that spread throughout this region.

I am honored to present my first book devoted to the cult of Mithras in ancient North Africa. Structured into four main sections, it also features a catalogue of twenty inscriptions and twenty-six illustrative plates…