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Absalmos may have led the Mithraic community that commissioned a bull-slaying relief bearing his name.

My interests lie at the intersection of ancient history, archaeology, classical philosophy, mythology, astrology and history of religions, with a particular fascination for mystery cults, ancient cosmology, and the symbolic language of initiation.

Theodoros guides a pig in the painted procession of Lions at Santa Prisca.

Heliodoros carries a large terracotta vessel in the painted procession of Lions at Santa Prisca.

Four letters carved beside Maximianus’ name may identify him as one of two Mithraic patres at Aquileia.

One of the ‘brothers’ who fulfilled a vow to the Invincible God Mithras by dedicating a figure of a Genius at Dieburg.

Dedicated ten vessels to Mithras the Invincible in fulfilment of a vow, recorded on a terra sigillata bowl associated with Rheinzabern.

Offered a relief of Mithras killing the bull at Mons Seleucus in fulfilment of a vow.

Grey sandstone slab from the Mithraeum at Königshoffen, a companion piece to the preceding, recording the same act of repainting a cult image by Caius Celsinius Matutinus, veteran of Legio VIII Augusta Alexandriana.

Sevir Augustalis and Mithraic Leo who dedicated a monument to Cautopates with Gaius Valerius Iulianus at Angera.

Mithraic Leo who jointly dedicated a monument to Cautopates at Angera with Marcus Statius Niger.

An Ambian devotee who dedicated an inscribed beaker to Mithras at Iuliomagus.

The film reveals the secret of the nearly 3,000-year-old inscription "The Door of Mher", the identities of the gods of the Van Kingdom pantheon, as well as the mathematical, geometric, astronomical and calendar knowledge of ancient priests-scientists.

Armenian old historical documentary about Nemrut Dag, Mithras and Armenia.

Imperial freedman and strator who dedicated an offering to Serapis in Rome.

Roman equestrian who helped finance and complete a probable Mithraeum at Aveia Vestina in 213 CE.