The New Mithraeum Database

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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…

Small marble head probably of Mithras tauroctonus from Leptis Magna, now Khoms.

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

Interview avec Fahim Ennouhi à l’occasion de la publication de son premier livre, Le culte de Mithra en Afrique du Nord antique, consacré à cette présence restée élitiste et marginale dans cette région de l’Empire.

In the 1900s a model Mithraeum was built in Saalburg in the mistaken belief that there was an original temple of Mithras in an ancient Roman building.

Two extracts from De abstinentia ab esu animalium by Porphyry on sacrifices and the importance of abstinence from animal food among Persian Magi.

Le culte de Mithra : Une religion iranienne qui se répand à Rome et dans son empire.

Of Isis and Osiris or Of the Ancient Religion and Philosophy of Egypt, Plutarch, The Moralia.

Two excerpts from the ’Life of Commodus’ in Lampridius’ Historia Augusta, dating from the 4th century CE.