Monumentum
Mithraeum of Cirta
An inscription mentioning a speleum decorated by Publilius Ceionius suggests the location of a mithraeum in Cirta, the capital of Numidia.
The New Mithraeum
18 Sep 2023
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The sanctuary has not been found.
Publilius Ceionius was a praeses consularis of Numidia under Valentinianus and Valens (364-367).
Referring to this inscription, E. Levi in Rec. Const. XLV, 1911, 265ff observes that there are a great many of caves in the neighbourhood. The inscription was discovered 'à la Kasbah' and he therefore thinks it acceptable, that a possible Mithraeum should have been in the immediate surroundings. There is a supposition, that it might have been a cave,
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