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 has found in a Roman building at the end of Attila Road, in Hévíz, Egregy
The Barberini Mithraeum was discovered in 1936 in the garden of the Palazzo Barberini, owned by Conte A. Savorgnan di Brazza.
The Mithraeum of Hauarte or Hawarte, which preserves colourful frescoes, it's the latest know and used.
The Mithraeum Felicissimus has a floor mosaic depicting the seven mithraic grades.
Tauroctony from Memphis
Procession Fresco from Santa Prisca
Tauroctony from Alba Iulia with collared dog
CIMRM 1705
Krater with weekday gods of Trier
Ceremonial sword of Riegel
Altar from Mitreo di San Clemente
Altar by Marcus Aurelius Sabinus
Mithraic vignettes of Ptuj
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Strange! I am not in Rome, but I would expect it to be open every day, even more in the summer!…
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Dear Csaba , I am fascinated by your slab of Mithras with Cautes wearing a child in front of the bull…
what’s the inventar number?
Sorry Behzad Bolour (correct spelling)
CIMRM 1614
Update! Found a new post-classical monument, this one from the French Renaissance: https://www.mithraeum.eu/monument/771…
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What a wonderful task! Of course, it came with an investment in ritual experience some years ago…
on Mithraeum at Santa Maria Capua Vetere. Revisited in February 2026
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