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Sarmizegetusa (Doştat)

Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augusta Dacica Sarmizegetusa was the capital and the largest city of Roman Dacia, later named Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa after the former Dacian capital, located some 40 km away. The city was destroyed by the Goths.

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Mithraeum of Eleusis

A Mithraeum has been identified in Eleusis where the last Hierophant form thespia had the rank of Father in the Mithraic Mysteries.

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Mithraic reliefs from Arsameia

Commagenean sanctuary preserving relief fragments of Mithras greeting royal figures at the hierothesion of Mithridates Kallinikos.

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Mithraeum of Tell Atchana

Subterranean sanctuary at ancient Atchana tentatively interpreted by Woolley as an early precursor to later Mithraic temples.

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Antiochia ad Orontem (Antakya)

Antioch was the capital of Roman Syria and gateway between the Mediterranean and the eastern provinces.

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Inscription of Sahin

Altar inscription from Sahin invoking the most high heavenly god and Mithras in the Alawite Mountains.

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Amethyst intaglio with Tauroctony

Amethyst intaglio engraved with Mithras slaying the bull, accompanied by Sol, Luna and other canonical Mithraic symbols.

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Mithraeum of Lambaesis

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

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Altar from Lambaesis by Aurelius Sabinus

This altar to the god Sol invicto Mithra was erected by a legate during Maximin’s reign in Lambaesis, Numidia.

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Mithraeum of Skikda

Many of the inscriptions and sculptures of the site were kept in a museum which has been destroyed.

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Relief fragment with Cautopates from Aïtodor

Corner fragment preserving the feet and lowered torch of the Mithraic torchbearer Cautopates.

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Relief fragment with Sol and Cautopates from Aïtodor

Only the left section survives, showing Sol above the torchbearer Cautopates beside the cave border.

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Tauroctony from the Mithräum von Heddernheim

This relief is so well-known that it has been reproduced in nearly every handbook of archaeology and of history of religions.

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Red sandstone tauroctony from Heddernheim

Relief in red sandstone originally standing on a base in Mithraeum I at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, featuring the bull-slaying scene.

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Torchbearer head from Heddernheim

Sandstone fragment from Mithraeum I at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, probably the damaged head of a torchbearer, often misidentified as Mercury.

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Nida (Frankfurt am Main)

Nida was an ancient Roman town in the area today occupied by the northwestern suburbs of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, specifically Frankfurt-Heddernheim, on the edge of the Wetterau region.

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Inscription by Numidius Decens from Lambaesis

This inscription by a certain Numidius Decens was found in the Forum of Lambaesis, now Tazoult تازولت in Algeria.

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Uruk (Warka)

Uruk, the archeological site known today as Warka, was an ancient city in the Near-East or West-Asia, located east of the current bed of the Euphrates River, on an ancient, now-dried channel of the river in Muthanna Governorate, Iraq.

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Mithraeum of Crimea

The site of Ay-Todor in Crimea revealed a Roman camp, a temple with votive offerings, and a Mithraeum.

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Gold coin of rom Bactria

Gold coin from Bactria depicting ΜΙΙΡΟ (Mithras) with radiate crown and military attributes.

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