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Mithras in Mauretania

Mauretania preserves western North African evidence linked to urban and maritime networks of the Roman empire.

The Mithraic evidence documented in Mauretania reflects the diffusion of the cult across the westernmost provinces of Roman North Africa. The material is associated primarily with urban centres, military presence and Mediterranean maritime connections linking the region to Hispania, Africa Proconsularis and the wider western empire.

Mithraic monuments of Mauretania

 

Altar from El Gahara by Florus

This altar is dedicated to the god Sol Invictus Mithras by a certain Florus, a veteran of the Legio III Augusta.

CIMRM 153

 

CIMRM 158

This fragmentary tauroctony relief from Timziouin near Saïda depicts Mithras slaying the bull within a cave-like frame, accompanied by the raven, serpent, scorpion, and Cautopates.

CIMRM 158

Brothers active in Mauretania

Iulius Florus

Iulius Florus
(c. late 2nd – early 3rd century)

Places in Mauretania

 

El-Gahra

The Roman settlement overlooked a passage between the Hodna and the Sahara via the Aïn Rich plain and the valley of the Oued Chaïr, between the Ouled-Naïl and Zab mountains.

Inscriptions from Mauretania

Altar from El Gahara by Florus

[deo] Soli invicto / Mithrae / [Gel?]lius Florus / [vet[eranus?]] leg[ionis] III aug[ustae] / ... us Pastor / [si]g[nifer] al[ae] I Pa[nn[oniorum] / [Pom]ponius Ma/[xi]mus b[ene]f[iciarius] / [co] [n]s[ulis] / [v[otum] s[olverunt]] l[ibentes] a[nimo].
To the Unconquered Sol Mithras, [Gel?]lius Florus, [veteran?] of Legion III Augusta, ...us Pastor, standard-bearer of the First Squadron of Pannonians, Pomponius Ma[ximus], beneficiary of the consul, [they] willingly fulfilled [their] vow.
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