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.
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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:…
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.
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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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.
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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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The Mithraeum I in Stockstadt contained images of Mithras but also of Mercury, Hercules, Diana and Epona, among others.
The Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere preserves frescoes depicting several scenes of the initiation rites.
The Mithraeum was housed in a cave. The vault is almost dome-shaped and in front of the cave there is enough space for a possible adjacent temple.
There are references to two places of worship from Dieburg, whereby the Mithraeum, discovered in 1926.
Tauroctony sculpture of Villa Borghese
Aion of Orazio Muti
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Tauroctony relief from Şehitkamil (Gaziantep)
Major fresco of the Mitreo Barberini
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Mithras rock-birth of Mithraeum III, Ptuj
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Two-sided relief from Rückingen
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For more information, see Beck, R 1988, Planetary Gods and Planetary Orders in the Mysteries of Mithras, pp. 15-34.
I recently had the opportunity to visit the remains of this mithraeum. It is located in Altafulla…
Gallia, Vol. 6, No. 2 (1948), pp. 289-347 (59 pages)
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Indeed Yannick. The right size is 3.6 cm diameter. Thank you.
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Monreal 12th centyry AD. 1,000 years after mithraism...
I am interested in this as my 87 year old friend grew up in Burham and remembers a track she used…
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