Let's talk about Mithras with Yolanda De Iuliis
Yolanda's multimedia dissertation focuses on the cognitive mechanisms that motivate Mithras worshippers. Her work includes a podcast entitled Conversations about Mithras.
Notitiae
News and articles from Mithraeum.eu
Mapping Roman sanctuaries in the Danubian provinces
The Digital Atlas of Roman Sanctuaries in the Danubian Provinces (DAS) is the first comprehensive digital and open access representation of sacralised spaces founded and maintained during the Principate in the territory of the Danubian provinces.
Mithras in India and Iran
We propose to revisit a passage by the prolific author Marteen Vermaseren that highlights correspondences today forgotten between the Roman Mithras and its Eastern counterparts.
Mariemont unveils
(some of) the Mysteries of MithrasThe exhibition The Mystery of Mithras opens at the Mariemont Museum in Belgium, home of Franz Cumont, the father of studies on the solar god.
The Mystery of Mithras: Exploring the heart of a Roman cult
Three European museums celebrate Mithras with a continental exhibition featuring more than 200 works of art from Roman times to the present day.
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Press clips
Call for PhD students and post-doctoral fellows specialising in Mithras
On the occasion of the exhibition, the Royal Museum of Mariemont invites five experts from Europe to emulate the research on the cult of Mithras.
Before MAGA: Mithras, Phrygian Caps, and the Politics of Headwear
Despite the current political landscape of the US, we can look to antiquity to see that the red cap was actually once a symbol of citizenship and welcome to the foreigner.
Sarah E. Bond
Los dioses de Egipto y Persia que los romanos honraron en Lucus Augusti
La Domus de Mitreo y el Centro Arqueolóxico de San Roque muestran otra cara del viejo Lugo
Lorena García Calvo
Dolores Dopico: «Vamos a exponer los huesos de los animales del ritual del mitreo de Lugo»
La directora de la Domus do Mitreo anuncia que habrá una reforma del museo, que incluye una nueva pieza de epigrafía del yacimiento
Suso Varela
Raised by Wolves: Mithraism and Sol Explained
HBO Max's sci-fi series Raised By Wolves features a religious faction that references Sol and the Mithraic Mysteries. Here are the real-world Roman concepts the show borrowed from.
Juliette Harrisson
Some places to visit
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Mithräum von Wiesloch
The first members of the Wiesloch Mithraeum may have been veterans from Ladenburg and Heidelberg.
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Casa del Mitreo de Mérida
Although this building is not a Mithraeum, archaeologists have found several monuments related to the cult of Mithras.
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Mithraeum I of Ptuj
The Mithraeum I of Ptuj contains the foundation, altars, reliefs and cult imagery found in it.
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Mithraeum of Hawarti
The Mithraeum of Hauarte or Hawarte, which preserves colourful frescoes, it's the latest know and used.
Mithraic art and artifacts
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Mithras Tauroctony and other figures from Palæographia Britannica
Major fresco of the Mitreo Barberini
Mithras's feast from Mérida
Fresco scene from Mitreo of Santa Maria Capua Vetere
Second petrogey of Aquincum
Tauroctony of Stixneusiedl
Altar of Carnuntum by the Jovians and Herculians
Lion-headed figure of Mérida
Dionysus group marble of London
Sententia
Comments from visitors
As far as I can find the CIMRM number of this one is: 1083 and not 606.
Back in February 2011, I received a report that the Mithraeum at Caesarea had been "torn down.
Interesting that the couch's covering isn't recognizable as the slain bull, though I'm not sure I wo...
OK, I'm very confused about Jozef's description of this 'submission' scene.
I'd have liked to see the face of the carabinieri when they discovered the sculpture.
on Carabinieri recover a Mithras Tauroctony about to be sold on the black market
There is a mixture of 2 mithraeums in the text.
I recently had the opportunity to visit the remains of this mithraeum.
Congratulations to the city hall of Lugo and all the team who participated in this unexpected discov...
on The Mithreaum of Lugo reveals the expansion of the Persian cult to the boundaries of Hispania
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