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A wide-ranging interpretation of Mithraic symbolism, ritual and initiation, exploring boundaries, hierarchy, gender and the construction of an exclusively male religious world.

A cognitive study of the Roman cult of Mithras, exploring how initiation, ritual, iconography and the Mithraic environment shaped the perception, identity and worldview of its initiates.

Labors of Hercules as planetary zodiacal initiations: model mystagogy. The alchemy of Herculean labors.

A marble tauroctony discovered in the military quarter of ancient Zeugma, providing the first known evidence for the cult of Mithras at the city.

Melinda Szabó on Caius Antonius Rufus and the reorganisation of the Roman customs administration at Poetovio under Marcus Aurelius.

White marble altar from Mithraeum I at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, decorated with a bust of Cautopates, two ram heads flanking a palm, and lateral representations of Mithras’ rock-birth.

White marble base from Mithraeum I at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, with an inscription and the preserved legs, garment, and torch of a Cautopates statue.

White marble base from Mithraeum I at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, with an inscription and the preserved foot and lower garment of a Cautes statue.

Soldier of the Legio VIII Augusta who dedicated an altar to Deus Invictus at Genava after twenty-six years of service.

Italian esoteric journal published in Rome by the Gruppo di Ur in 1927–1928, bringing together studies and texts on initiatory traditions, magic and spiritual realisation, and continued as Krur in 1929.

Donated a krater with weekday gods to Mithras god and king in Augusta Treverorum.

Pater of the Mithraic community at Mogontiacum, who authorised Secundinius Amantius’ dedication to Mithras and Mars.

He was a cornicularius, a military administrator attached to the office of the prefect of Legio XXII Primigenia.

This relief of Mithras killing the bull from Apulum, now Alba Iulia, Romania, contains several scenes from the Mithras legend.

Kutalmış Görkay reassesses the Roman military quarter of Zeugma through archaeological and geophysical evidence, including the first Mithraic relief discovered at the city and the probable location of a mithraeum.