The New Mithraeum Database

The lion-headed figure from Rusicade, now Skikda, holds a key in both hands and features a pine cone beside his feet.

The statue of Skikda has seven holes in his hair for fastening rays.

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

Fragment of a white marble statue of Mithras killing the bull from Rusicade, today Skikda, Algeria.

Skikda is a city in northeastern Algeria and a port on the Mediterranean.

Two marble statues (H. 0.63; 0.60).

Both objects have a snake winding itself around them.