The Digital Atlas of Roman Sanctuaries in the Danubian Provinces (DAS) is the first comprehensive and open access representation of sacralised spaces in the area.
Notitiae
Lenni George on Hekate’s development across ancient traditions, from mystery cults to magical practice and philosophical thought.
On what Hekate’s name may or may not tell us, and why the uncertainty matters.
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.
By reading Orphic theology together with Eleusinian ritual practice, the mysteries emerge as a structured mystagogy of transformation:…
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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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The Mysteries of Mithras is an independent Initiatic Order which is inspired by and uses the allegory of the lost and ancient Mithraic Mysteries also known as Mithraism a previously influential Roman Cult of the same name.
Mysteriesofmithras/sandbox
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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The temple of Mithras of Carrawburgh, Brocolita, disclosed three main stages of development, the second exhibiting two reconstructions.
The few remains of the Mithraeum of Gimmeldingen are preserved at the Historical Museum of the Palatinate, in Speyer, Germany.
One of the rooms of the villa has been interpreted as a mithraeum, but we do not have enough evidence to confirm this.
Archaeologists discovered the 20th temple dedicated to Mithras in Ostia during the restoration of the domus del capitello di stucco in 2022.
Tauroctony from Split
Tauroctony from the Mithraeum of Lucciana
CIMRM 595
Heracles captures the Golden Hind of Artemis
Tauroctonia de Walbrook
CIMRM 1640
Tauroctony 593
Fragment of a Mithraic tauroctony from Dacia
Aion relief of Palazzo Colonna
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Nonne speluncae instrumenta communicationis socialis et manipulatio populi, ars tantum inter tyrannos inventa…
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Thank you for sharing it and congratulations for your beautiful and interesting work.
https://www.mithraeum.eu/group/anglo.mithraic.society
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It is magnificent. so better if you had a picture of the inside.
Indeed Yannick. The right size is 3.6 cm diameter. Thank you.
Souls enter Cancer and follow the cycle of the moon passing in front of the altar…
I did not express myself well. I think that this golbe or ball is the soul but also of Plato's Anima Mundi…
Interessante e gostei muito deste artigo. Penso que o culto de Mitra carece de mais documentação arqueológica escrita…
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