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Mithras in Africa

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.

Andreu Abuín

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  • Life around the world’s largest Mithras temple revealed at Doliche

    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

    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

  • The Mirror of Mithras

    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.

    P Sufenas Virius Lupus

  • A new mithraeum discovered during excavation in Trier

    A place of worship for the Roman god of light Mithras was discovered during archaeological excavations in Trier. This includes a larger relief.

  • Hallan en el yacimiento romano de Cabra (Córdoba) un lugar de culto al dios Mithra

    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

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Some places to visit

  • Niasar Cave

    The Niasar Cave, غار نیاسر, was a temple probably devoted to Iranian Mithras that dates back to the early Partian era.

     
  • Cerro de San Albín

    Although the site at Cerro de San Albín is not a Mithraeum, archaeologists have found several monuments related to the cult of Mithras.

     
  • Casa del Mitreo

    The name of this domus comes from the fact that some authors once associated one of its mosaics with the cult of Mithras, a connection that has since been dismissed.

     
  • Mitreo di Santa Maria Capua Vetere

    The Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere preserves a remarkable series of frescoes depicting scenes from the initiation rites.

     

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Guest insights

Andreu Abuín

Hi Levin: It’s quite a common point of view in religious contexts to worrying about to what…

on Hyenas or Lionesses? Mithraism and Women in the Religious World of the Late Antiquity

 

Dominique PERSOONS

I don’t understand why he needs a shower cap to go surfing.

on a post

 

Pattie L

Well, thanks for getting back to me. If there’s anything you’d like to know, feel free to poke me. Nice to meet you…

on Beth

 

Pattie L

It’s like I’m being followed... but in a good way. ^__^

on CIMRM 1694

 

The New Mithraeum

Thank you Pattie! Just updated the monument with the right CIMRM reference.

on Aion of Orazio Muti

 

Antoine Phelippeau

Another angle of the sanctuary, showing its open layout toward the road.

on Mithréum de Septeuil

 

Gabriel Simeoni

I knew this amazing capital in Monreale. In Sicily, isn’t it? It’s quite remarkable…

on From Mithraism to Freemasonry. A history of ideas

 

Nik Shah

It is magnificent. so better if you had a picture of the inside.

on Temple of Garni

 

Pattie L

Probably at home... but I’m at work. ;-) Will get back to you.

on Fragments of a column base from Hamadan

 
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