Three European museums celebrate Mithras with a continental exhibition featuring more than 200 works of art from Roman times to the present day.
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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.
Introductio
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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.
Agencia
A votive altar referring to the cult of Mithras was found more than forty years before the site was excavated and the Mithraeum discovered.
The Mithraeum of Carminiello ai Mannesi was installed in two rooms of a 1st century BC domus.
The Mitreo dei Castra Peregrinorum was discovered under the church of Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome.
The Mithraeum near Porta Romana was connected to a Sacello, but the door was blocked.
Tauroctony on intaglio
Serapis head of Walbrook
Taurcotony of Secundinus
Tauroctony from Gimmeldingen
Portable tauroctony of Vienna
Inscription of Cimber and Exsocho from Cologne
Altar of Flavius Verecundus from Carnuntum
Inscription of Lucius Sempronius
Head of Mithras from the Mitreo degli Animali
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Merci pour l'information, Zi. En effet, la sculpture jointe faisait partie d'un autre ensemble.
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
British Museum: Gallery 1 (G1/od/nr186)
Great. It's similar to the Mithraic temple in Maragheh, Iran. According to this photos…
Deo invicto regi; to God the invincible King. According to some relics, "lying down" means sea or river. Neptune or Oceanus…
on CIMRM 1017
Tauroctony and inscription: CIMRM 1012-13 12 stone balls and bronze lamp: CIMRM 1016
Les pupilles de dieu sont formees d’un email blanc. Dang! I wish this wasn’t lost!! ;__;
on CIMRM 613
I see pineapples everywhere
on CIMRM 1743
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