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Mithras in Africa

In his first book, Fahim Ennouhi sheds light on the cult of Mithras in Roman Africa. A marginal and elitist phenomenon, confined to restricted circles and largely absent from local religious dynamics, yet revealing.

Andreu Abuín

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Some places to visit

  • Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale

    A mosaic of Silvanus, dated to the time of Commodus, was found in a niche in a nearby room of the Mithraeum in the Imperial Palace at Ostia.

     
  • Mithraeum of Jajce

    The remains of the Jajački Mithraeum were discovered accidentally during excavation for the construction of a private house in 1931.

     
  • Zeus Brontoon sanctuary near Villa dei Quintili

    Mithras and other oriental gods were worshipped in the shrine of Zeus near the Villa of the Quintilians in Rome.

     
  • Mithraeum of Rožanec

    According to Hitzinger remnants of animal bones were found in front of the relief of the Mithraeum at Rozanec.

     

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Guest insights

Ennio Sanzi

what’s the inventar number?

on Tauroctony of Neuenheim

 

Horia VIN

Thank you! ☺️ So nice!

on Mercury of Mérida

 

Mithraeum.eu

Thank you for sharing it and congratulations for your beautiful and interesting work.

on Tauroctony of Santa Maria Capua Vetere

 

Aleš Chalupa

Thank you for your reply. My comment was in no way meant to be critical, I found the same information on the web…

on Mithraeum of Thermes

 

Antoine Phelippeau

Near the village of Septeuil, in the Yvelines department (Île-de-France), lie the very faint…

on Mithréum de Septeuil

 

The New Mithraeum

Gratias Pattie!

on Petrogeny with hand on head from Nida

 

Yannick Schmidt

Original is now in the Ötzi Museum in Bozen, but still not part of an exhibition. Lit…

on Tauroctony of Mauls

 

Mithraeum.eu

Indeed, Dionisia. Thanks for noticing. Well corrected.

on Aion of Villa Albani

 

Pattie L

This is not CIMRM 893. The Bordeaux mithraeum is post-CIMRM. Here’s CIMRM 893: https://www.tertullian…

on Cautopates de Bordeaux

 
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