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.
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.
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.
Dancing out the Mysteries of Dionysos
Peter Mark Adams: ‘The initiation was a frightening experience that caused some people to panic as a flood of otherworldly entities swept through the ritual space.’
Porphyry’s Cave of Nymphs
and the Cult of MithrasBetween the 1st and 4th centuries, Mithraism developed throughout the Roman world. Much material exists, but textual evidence is scarce. The only ancient work that fills this gap is Porphyry's intense and complex essay.
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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
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
The gay origins of the Hindi world for friend
The Sanskrit and Hindi word for friend is “Mitra”. It is also the Nepali word for it. The Sinhala word is ‘mitura’. The word’s etymology has surprising, stark and vivid homosexual connotations.
Pitamber Kaushik
Some places to visit
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Mithraeum of Housesteads
The Housesteads Mithraeum is an underground temple, now burried, discovered in 1822 in a slope of the Chapel Hill, outside of the Roman Fort at the Hadrian's Wall.
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Mithraeum of Tienen
The temple contained hundreds of ceramic vessels and animal bones, which may indicated that a grand Mithraic feast was celebrated before its closing.
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Mithraeum of Dura Europos
The most emblematic of the Syrian Mithraea was discovered in 1933 by a team led by the Russian historian Mikhaïl Rostovtzeff.
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Mithraeum of Bourg-Saint-Andéol
The Mithréum de Bourg-Saint-Andéol was built against a rock where the main Tauroctony was chiseled.
Mithraic art and artifacts
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Mithras Tauroctonus from private collection
Fresco de Luna en el Mitreo de Santa Maria Capua Vetere
Inscription of Olympus to his grandfather
Cautes fresco from Mitreo di Santa Maria Capua Vetere
Altar of Carnuntum by Sacidius Barbarus
Mithras Tauroctony and other figures from Palæographia Britannica
Mithraic relief of Baris
Tauroctony relief of Carnuntum
Dedication inscription from Koenigshoffen Mithraeum
Sententia
Comments from visitors
You might be interested in a digital reconstruction that I did of the 2nd c.
Porphyry says that the cave isn’t only the symbol of the Cosmos, but also the symbol of invisible ...
Back in February 2011, I received a report that the Mithraeum at Caesarea had been "torn down.
While there were many mithraea located at the forts on the Limes, there was not one at the Saalburg.
The sculpture was found, according to its discoverer, next to the western wall that delimits the imp...
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