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The New Mithraeum

Community dedicated to the study, disclosure and reenactment of the Mysteries of Mithras since 2004.

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Dec 2024
Syndexios

Caracalla

Emperor Caracalla ordered one of Rome’s largest temples to the god Mithras to be built in the baths bearing his name.
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Dec 2024
Monumentum

CIMRM 765

This bronze arm, with stars and a swastika, was once thought to be part of a Mithras statuette but has since been dismissed as unrelated to the Mithras cult.
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Dec 2024
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Tauroctony from Carnuntum

Relief of Mithras killing the bull with an inscription from a certain Aurelius Macer who dedicates it to Sol Invictus Mithras.
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Dec 2024
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CIMRM 1410

Conglomerate statue of the birth of Mithras, found in a burnt layer, showing the god nude emerging from the rock with raised hands and a snake.
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Dec 2024
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CIMRM 1701

Sandstone relief of Mithras as bull-slayer, found at Petronell in 1932, with dog, serpent and scorpion, traces of polychromy preserved, now in the Museum Carnuntinum.
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Dec 2024
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CIMRM 1665

Sandstone relief of Mithras killing the bull, broken in two parts and partly restored, with dog, serpent and scorpion preserved; formerly in Vienna, now on loan to the Museum Carnuntinum.
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Dec 2024
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Mithras in Dacia with Csaba Szabó

Exploring religion, rituals, archaeological insights, and historical impact of the Cult of Mithras in the Danubian provinces.
Saturnin Ksawery
Thank you for this wonderful lecture. If I may, I would highly commend the following book: Eastern Cults in Moesia Inferior and Thracia: 5th Century Bc-4th Ad by Margarita Tacheva-Hitova, as a supplement. It is available on the internet archives.
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Dec 2024
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CIMRM 413 b

Upper part of a marble relief (H. 0.12 Br. 0.13 D. 0.05), found in the Forum of Caesar.
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Dec 2024
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CIMRM 413 a

Small marble base, found in one of the private houses along the Via Sacra nearly opposite to the Basilica of Constantine.
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Dec 2024
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Mithras birth from Petronell

Only parts of the knees of Mithras, emerging from the rock, have been preserved from this monument of Petronell-Carnuntum, Austria.
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Dec 2024
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CIMRM 257 a|b

Head of Greek marble (H. 0.46).
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Dec 2024
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CIMRM 123 124

Two marble statues (H. 0.63; 0.60).
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Dec 2024
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CIMRM 1002

According to Pagenstecher in ] dI 27, 1912, 171f in the Museum at Calena there must be a fragment of pottery with a Mithras-representation, which should come from Gallia.
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Dec 2024
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CIMRM 999

Head, formerly kept at St.
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Dec 2024
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CIMRM 998

Two stone altars (H. 0.38 Br. 0.13 D. 0.09).
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Dec 2024
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CIMRM 996

Two fragments of red pottery, belonging to a plate (diam. 0.22), found "beim Bahneinschnitt in der Nahe der Schiitzenstrasze".
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Dec 2024
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CIMRM 995

Fragment of pottery (diam. 0.095); find-spot unknown.
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Dec 2024
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CIMRM 994

Three fragments of a plate (diam. 0.14), found at Treves, in the pottery's work- shops along the Ziegelstrasze near the Roman Wall.
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Dec 2024
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CIMRM 993

Fragment of a white marble head (H. 0.15).
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Dec 2024
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CIMRM 992

Altar in limestone from the Jura, found "bei Verbreiterung der Moselbahn unweit der Uberflihrung des Weberbaches" near the Therms (1879).
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