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The many lives of Mithras

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?

Andreu Abuín
Andreu Abuín

Notitiae

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Some places to visit

  • Temple of Garni

    After Christianity was adopted, most pagan monuments were destroyed or abandoned. Garni, however, was preserved at the request of the sister of King Tiridates II and used as a summer residence for Armenian royalty.

     
  • Mitreo de la calle Espronceda

    The Mithraeum at Espronceda Street, in Merida, was discovered in 2000. It is a semi-subterranean temple.

     
  • Mithraeum of Sárkeszi

    One of the largest known Mithraea in Pannonia, the sanctuary of Sárkeszi stood near the Roman road linking Herculia and Aquincum.

     
  • Mithréum de Mandelieu

    Excavations in 1979 on the remains of the church of Notre-Dame d'Avigonet in Mandelieu, Alpes-Maritimes, brought to light a small mithraeum.

     

Sententia

Guest insights

Pattie L

Anyone know what museum this piece lives in?

on Cautopates from Jajce

 

The New Mithraeum

Here you go https://www.mithraeum.eu/monument/770

on Fragments of a column base from Hamadan

 

Pattie L

CIMRM 2170 [ref:69cac135b3073]

on Mithraeum of Slăveni

 

The New Mithraeum

Ego credo Platonis posteros doctrinam eius ita detorsisse, ut, pro luce quaerenda ad e spelunca exeundum…

on a post

 

Pattie L

Photo by the awesome Carole Raddato of Hollowing Hadrian.

on Alabaster tauroctony fragment from Cologne

 

Mateusz Zalewski

The Two Gates: Thank you very much for sharing this Dominique. Traditionally…

on Mithraeum at Santa Maria Capua Vetere. Revisited in February 2026

 

Pattie L

You can see, by the scoring in the "stone", that the corner was simply added to make it more…

on Tauroctony relief from Naples

 

Dominique PERSOONS

It is ironic that the logo of "the new mithraeum" represents the Platonic cosmic chiasma

on Mitreo di Santa Prisca

 
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