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Your search Dura Europos gave 98 results.

 
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Graffito naming Antoninus at Dura-Europos

Engraved Nâma inscription addressed to Antoninus, a pious syndexios, from the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria.

 
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Dipinto naming the fathers of Dura-Europos

Painted inscription naming the patres and other initiates of the Mithraeum, above the podium in the south-west corner of the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria.

 
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Graffito with Nâma salutation from Dura-Europos

Graffito bearing the Mithraic salutation Nâma, engraved on column 1 of the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria.

 
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Dipinto of Archelao from Dura-Europos

Painted inscription naming a tribune Archelao, found on a column or wall of the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria.

 
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Figure fragment from the banquet scene at Dura-Europos

Fragment of a figure dressed like Mithras in the banquet scene, found in the rubble of the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria.

 
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Painted plaster with foliage from Dura-Europos

Fragments of wall plaster decorated with green leaves and tree branches, adhering to the south wall of the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria.

 
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Large-scale painted heads from Dura-Europos

Fragments of large-scale painted heads belonging to paintings of considerable size, from the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria, 3rd century A.D.

 
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Zodiac paintings in the Dura-Europos Mithraeum

Painted zodiac signs covering earlier figures in Phrygian cap in the arched niche of the Later Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria, 3rd century A.D.

 
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Fresco with tauroctony and seven cypresses

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.

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Two-sided relief of Dieburg

The relief of Dieburg shows Mithras riding a horse as main figure, surrounded by several scenes of the myth.

 
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Graffito from the Mitreo del Cassegiato di Diana

This graffito seems to be an account of offerings made by Mithras worshippers in the Cassegiato di Diana.

 
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Tauroctony relief from Şehitkamil (Gaziantep)

New evidence for the cult of Mithras and the religious practices of Legio IV Scythica at the Roman frontier city of Zeugma on the Euphrates.

 
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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.

 
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Tauroctony from Absalmos

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

 
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Jesus or Mithras? by Dr. Reza Assasi - ACSF 2023 - New York City

Mithraic Influence on Early Christian Symbolism and Church – Architecture

 
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Aion of Porsione

This Aion is known for wearing a Kalathos on his lion’s head, linking him to the syncretic Sarapis.

 
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The mithraeum of Dura-Europos. New discoveries about an old excavation

Intervention de Lucinda Dirven, Universiteit van Amsterdam.

 
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Mithraeum of Caesarea Maritima

This shrine developed towards the end of 2nd century and remained active until beginning 4th.

 
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Inscription "Soli Invicto Augusto Sacrum" from Capera

A square stone from La Oliva near Capera (modern Cáparra) in Extremadura, bearing an inscription dedicated to Sol Invictus Augustus.

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