We speak with Israel Campos Méndez about questions that continue to divide scholars: what links the Indo-Iranian Mithra to the deity worshipped in the Roman Empire, and what do we really know about the origins of Roman Mithraism?
Notitiae
Arguments for interpreting the Tomb of the Elephant as a Mithraeum based on architectural archaeology, digital surveying and archaeoastronomy.
Labors of Hercules as planetary zodiacal initiations: model mystagogy. The alchemy of Herculean labors.
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.
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Introductio
Press clips
Archaeologists at Doliche are now excavating houses around the vast Mithras temple to learn how people lived beside the sanctuary.
Newsroom
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
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
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.
Roman building on the Aventine between the eastern side of S. Saba and Via Salvator, probably used as a Mithraeum at the end of the 4th century, with a long corridor bearing three semicircular niches and a large external basin.
The Mithraeum of Cyrene is preserved among the remarkable ruins of the ancient capital of the Roman province of Cyrene.
The site of Ay-Todor in Crimea revealed a Roman camp, a temple with votive offerings, and a Mithraeum.
The Mithraeum of Inveresk, south of Musselburgh, East Lothian, is the first found in Scotland, and the earliest securely dated example from Britain.
Slab of Cornelio from Trillo
Alabaster tauroctony fragment from Cologne
Sandstone base with Medusa and torchbearer from Carnuntum
Marble statues of Cautes and Cautopates from Rusicade
Seal of King Šauštatar of Mitanni
Tauroctony on yellow carnelian from Udine
Marble inscription for a cult image of Mithras from Rome
Inscription to Sol Apollo Anicetus from Rudchester
Rock-cut tauroctony relief from Rožanec
Sententia
Was working in the 2200s today and found an image of this tauroctony on Flickr…
Brilliant find. Thanks as usual!
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Here you go https://www.mithraeum.eu/monument/770
Thanks. My bad!
I was just SO excited over this one. XOXO
There are more than a few examples of tauroctonies without Sol and Luna. Space is always a consideration when carving stone…
Thank you for sharing, much appreciated
On this, the sun and the moon are a common motif in Roman iconography, appearing of course on the…
