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The New Mithraeum Database

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Locus

Leptis Magna

Leptis or Lepcis Magna, also known by other names in antiquity, was a prominent city of the Carthaginian Empire and Roman Libya at the mouth of the Wadi Lebda in the Mediterranean.

Socius

Fahim Ennouhi

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.

 
Scriptum

#363

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…

 
Notitia

Mithras in Africa

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.

 
Monumentum

Mithréum de Septeuil

In the second half of the 4th century, a Mithraic temple was established within an earlier spring sanctuary at Septeuil, where the cult of the nymphs and Mithraic practices appear to have coexisted.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 108

Statue of a standing person in eastern attire in red, local limestone with inscription.

 
Monumentum

Second phallus relief from the Mithraeum of Tiddis

This second relief depicting a phallus from Tiddis, Algeria, has been positioned alongside its counterpart atop pillars that greet visitors to the Mithras shrine.

 
Monumentum

Phallus relief from the Mithraeum of Tiddis

The phallus from Tiddis, Algeria, has been represented as a cock.

 
Monumentum

Mithraeum of Cirta

An inscription mentioning a speleum decorated by Publilius Ceionius suggests the location of a mithraeum in Cirta, the capital of Numidia.

 
Monumentum

Altar by Celsianus from Lambaesis

This altar found in Lambèse, now Tazoult, Algeria, bears the inscription of a certain Celsianus for the health of two men to the god Sol Unconquered Mithras.

Socius

Carlos Afonso Santos

Apenas um pesquisador. Sou maçom e tenho estudado muito o assunto.

Socius

Helios Mithra

Historian, Platonist, and practicing Mithraist writing on tradition, transcendence, and the soul’s ascent through history, myth, and metaphysics.

 
Monumentum

Mithraeum of Lambaesis

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

 
Monumentum

Mithraeum of Sofia

The Mithraeum of Serdica was found in the fortified area of the ancient city of Serdica, now Sofia, Bulgaria.

Socius

María Teresa Juan Sanchis

Soy Dra. en Filosofía y Letras por la Universidad de Alicante. He escrito un libro sobre Mitra denominado "Los templos del dios Mitra en el Imperio romano".

 
Monumentum

Denarius depicting Mithras rock-birth of St. Albans

The mithraic denarius of St. Albans dates from the 2nd century.

Socius

Lyle Goldberg

 
Monumentum

Aion of Orazio Muti

This monument has been identified from ’Memorie di varie antichità trovate in diversi luoghi della città di Roma’, a book by Flaminio Vacca of 1594.

 
Scriptum

#356

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Socius

reşit solmaz

I was born in 1975 in Gaziantep. I graduated from the Department of Public Administration in 2005. In 2009, I started working at the Municipality of Şehitkamil

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