The New Mithraeum Database

Oea was an ancient city in modern-day Tripoli, Libya, founded by the Phoenicians in the 7th century BC. It became a Roman-Berber colony in the second half of the 2nd century BC.

The Mithraic nature of the frescoes of Oea, according to the scholars Cumont and Vermaseren, is now questioned.

TNMM575 – CIMRM 113, 114

Statue (H. 2.03) in red, local limestone.

TNMM851 – CIMRM 108

L.

TNMM852 – CIMRM 109

From the Forum Vetus "dalla parte della Basilica scavata da Guidi" comes a second base of the same limestone and with the same inscription (L.H. 0.028).

TNMM853 – CIMRM 110

Small marble head.

TNMM854 – CIMRM 111

Giacomo Caputo writes us about an inscription, discovered at the Roman Fort of Bu-Ngem by the British School at Rome: "e su chiave d'arco".

TNMM855 – CIMRM 116

Prof.

TNMM856 – CIMRM 117