At Rome’s twilight, amid political upheaval and Christian ascendancy, Vettius Agorius Praetextatus embodied pagan intellect, virtue, and authority across senatorial, military, and mystical spheres.
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By reading Orphic theology together with Eleusinian ritual practice, the mysteries emerge as a structured mystagogy of transformation:…
This article revisits the Mithraeum of S. Maria Capua Vetere, one of the most complete and artistically refined Mithraic sanctuaries in the Campanian region, situating it within its archaeological, iconographic, and ritual-historical contexts.
In his first book, Fahim Ennouhi sheds light on the cult of Mithras in Roman Africa. A marginal and elitist phenomenon, confined to restricted circles and largely absent from local religious dynamics, yet revealing.
Restoring the Mysteries: A Conversation with Peter Mark Adams on his new book ‘Ritual & Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras’.
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Archaeologists at Doliche are now excavating houses around the vast Mithras temple to learn how people lived beside the sanctuary.
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Over the last century or so, a great deal has been said about the god Mithras and his mysteries, which became known to the European world mainly through his Roman cultus during the Imperial Period.
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A place of worship for the Roman god of light Mithras was discovered during archaeological excavations in Trier. This includes a larger relief.
Las excavaciones llevadas a cabo en el yacimiento arqueológico romano de la villa de Mithra, en Cabra (Córdoba), han deparado el excepcional hallazgo de un mitreo, o zona destinada al culto al dios Mithra, cuya estatua fue descubierta hace unos 70 años.
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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.
The Mithraeum of Spoleto was found in 1878 by the professor Fabio Gori on behalf of Marquis Filippo Marignoli, owner of the land.
The Mithraeum of Mocici was situated in a grotto at one hour's walk fomr the ancient Epidaurum.
The temple of Mithras in Fertorakos was constructed by soldiers from the Carnuntum legion at the beginning of the 3rd century AD.
The Barberini Mithraeum was discovered in 1936 in the garden of the Palazzo Barberini, owned by Conte A. Savorgnan di Brazza.
Phallus relief from the Mithraeum of Tiddis
Cautes and Cautópates of Palazzo Imperiale
Inscription of Tarragona
Naked figure from Mérida
Mithras rock-birth fresco of Hawarte
Venus of Mérida small sculpture
Altar of Sextus Syntrophus
Cantharus to Deo Invicto of Trier
CIMRM 1665
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Any clue why this "counts" as two different CIMRM numbers?
Spent the day trying to find a better image of the tauroctony surround on the right in the case..…
on CIMRM 893
Richard Gordon suggests the object on the Miles step is a bull’s hindquarter…
Another angle of the sanctuary, showing its open layout toward the road.
here’s a wonderful article, full of meanings to explain the different gods…
Il piacere è tutto mio.
on Milo
I think we were talking about two types of globes: you were mentioning the small spheres carried by certain figures…
I appreciate this article as it spawned and actual (gasp!) conversation on the facebook group…
Please be critical! As you can see, this article was written a long time ago and only quotes an article from https://www…
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