A Mithraeum was excavated by the Yale University Expedition to Dura Europos, Syria. Photographs from the archive of the Yale Art Museum. These artistic representations pre-date the city's destruction that occurred in AD 257.
Top plan of the Mithraeum at Dura Europos. [Yale University Art Museum Archives].
"Late" phase of the
Mithraeum shrine excavated by Yale University.
Mithraeum shrine during the excavation by Yale University.
Restored mithraeum shrine reconstructed in the Yale University Art Museum.
Fragmemts of a wall painting showing Sol and Mithras.
Upper, later relief panel from a photograph taken during the excavations.
Upper, later relief panel on display at the Yale University Art Museum.
Photograph in the field of the partially excavated smaller relief in the Mithraeum at Dura Europos.
Photograph in the field of the smaller relief in the Mithraeum at Dura Europos.
Lower, smaller relief in the Mithraeum at Dura Europos.
Photograph taken in the field at Dura Europos by Yale University archaeologists of the painting of Mithras as a mounted hunter.
Color image of the wall painting on display at Yale University Art Museum of the painting of Mithras as a mounted hunter.
Color image of the wall painting on display at Yale University Art Museum of the painting of Mithras as a mounted hunter.
Color image of the wall painting on display at Yale University Art Museum. Hopkins (1979:202) identified this image as a seated magi with an ebony staff.
Color image of the wall painting on display at Yale University Art Museum. This is the second of two magi.
Hopkins, Clark
1979 The discovery of Dura-Europos. Yale University Press, Ne Haven.
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