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Monumentum

Fresco ‘City of Darkness’ from Hawarte
The City of Darkness unique fresco from the Mithraeum of Hawarte shows the tightest links between the western and eastern worship of Mithras in Roman Syria.
TNMM344
Mithraeum

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.
TNMM32
Mithraeum

Mithraeum of Dura Europos
The most emblematic of the Syrian Mithraea was discovered in 1933 by a team led by the Russian historian Mikhaïl Rostovtzeff.
TNMM34 – CIMRM 34
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Sî`
In the tauroctony of Jabal al-Druze in Syria, the snake appears to be licking the head of the bull's penis.
TNMM389 – CIMRM 88
Mithraeum

Mitreo de Hawarti
TNMM67
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Arshawi-Kibar
This relief of Mithras as bull slayer is surrounded by Cautes and Cautopates with their usual torch plus an oval object.
TNMM224 – CIMRM 71
Mithraeum

Mithraeum of Hawarti
The Mithraeum of Hauarte or Hawarte, which preserves colourful frescoes, it's the latest know and used.
TNMM221
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Absalmos
The relief depict several unusual scenes from Mithras’s myth.
TNMM128
ἐκ τῶν τοῦ θεοῦ ἐπὶ ̕Αβσάλμου.
Monumentum

CIMRM 48
Around the niche of the Dura Europos Mithraeum fragments of a series of small paintings set in a semicircular band of panels were found.
TNMM826 – CIMRM 48
Monumentum

CIMRM 42
Around the relief with Mithras as a bullkiller, a number of scenes from the Mithras Iegend have been painted in the Mithraeum of Dura Europos.
TNMM823 – CIMRM 42
Monumentum

Inscription to Tourmasgade of Dura Europos
This inscription by a certain Ioulianos, found at the entrance to the Dolichenum at Dura Europos, bears an inscription to Zeus Helios Mithras et Tourmasgade.
TNMM661 – CIMRM 70
Διὶ Ἡλίῳ / Μίθρᾳ άγί/ῳ ὑψίστῳ / ἐπηκόῳ / Τουρμασγά/δη [---] Ἰου/[λιαν-]ὸς στρα(τιώτης) / [λε]γ(εῶνος) ις´ Φ(λαου�…
Monumentum

Column with inscription from Dura Europos
The inscription pays homage to the emperor, probably Caracalla, to Mithras, the fathers, the petitor and the syndexioi.
TNMM468 – CIMRM 54
Ὓπὲρ Νίκης του Κυρί/ου ἡμων Αὐτοκράτορος / Νάμα θεῷ Μίθρᾳ / νάμα πάτρασι Λιβει/ανῷ καὶ Θεωδώρῳ / νάμα καὶ Μ…
Monumentum

Engraved column by Maximus of Dura Europos
A certain Maximus from the Legio IV Scythica engraved his name in one of the columns of the Mithraeum of Dura Europos.
TNMM759 – CIMRM 62
Nam[a] / Maximus / scen[i]co / leg(ionis) IIII Sc(ythicae).
Monumentum

Altars of Dura Europos
Three plaster altars within the main altar of the Mithraeum of Dura Europos, two of them with traces of fire and cinders.
TNMM731 – CIMRM 35, 36
Mithraeum

Mithraeum of Qasr Ibn Wardan
According to F. Cumont, the Bedouins told a legend from which Nöldeke concluded that the castle of Quasr-ibn-Wardân was a fort with a mithraeum.
TNMM350 – CIMRM 73
Monumentum

Main Tauroctony relief from Dura Europos
The main relief of Mithras killing the bull from the Mithraeum of Dura Europos includes three persons named Zenobius, Jariboles and Barnaadath.
TNMM298 – CIMRM 40, 41
Θεοῦ (sic) Μίθραν ἐπόησεν Ζηνόβιος ὁ καὶ Εἰαειβᾶς Ἰαριβωλέους / στρατεγὸς τοξοτῶν ἔτους δευτέρου πυ̕.
Monumentum

Scratched words of Kamerios
'Hail to Kamerios the Pater' can be read on one of the walls of the mithraeum at Dura Europos.
TNMM614 – CIMRM 67
Patri / vita / Ka/merio.
Monumentum

Graffiti to Kamerios from Dura Europos Mithraeum
The text mentions a certain Kamerios, described as immaculate miles.
TNMM467 – CIMRM 59
Νάμα Καμ/ερίω στρα/τιώτη / άκερίω.
Monumentum

First Tauroctony relief of Dura Europos
One of the reliefs of the Dura Europos tauroctonies includes several characters with their respective names.
TNMM179 – CIMRM 37, 38
Ἔθφανει ἰστρατηγα
Monumentum

Dipinto in red letters from Dura Europos
This short dipinto pays homage to the Lions and the Persians, the 4th and 5th Mithraic degrees.
TNMM613 – CIMRM 58
[Νά]μα λέουσιν / [ἁβρ ?]οῖς χαὶ Περσέσ/[ιν. .] ἐλεμνοις.