The New Mithraeum Database

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

TNMM616 – CIMRM 134

From Algeria

Pro praetor legate during the reign of Maxime, he dedicated an altar to Mithras in Lambaesis.

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

TNMM615 – CIMRM 129

Cirta, also known by various other names in antiquity, was the ancient Berber and Roman settlement which later became Constantine, Algeria.

Tiddis was a Roman city that depended on Cirta and a bishopric as Tiddi, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see. It was located on the territory of the current commune of Bni Hamden in the Constantine Province of eastern Algeria.

Icosium was a Berber city that was part of Numidia which became an important Roman colony and an early medieval bishopric in the casbah area of actual Algiers.

Lambaesis, Lambaisis or Lambaesa, is a Roman archaeological site in Algeria, 11 km southeast of Batna and 27 km west of Timgad, located next to the modern village of Tazoult.

Aphrodisius, probably of Greek origin, must have been a slave of the Cornelii.

Latin writer, Platonic philosopher and rhetorician.

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