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Acta diurna

Daily Gazette/106

Acta diurna is our Mithraic social stream for keeping up to date with what is happening in The New Mithraeum.

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Jan 2022
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Heracles captures the Golden Hind of Artemis

Relief of Heracles/Hercules capturing the Golden Hind of Artemis.
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Jan 2022
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Aion of Florence

The sculpture of Aion from Florence, Italy, has the usual serpent, coiled six times on its body, whose head rests on that of the god of eternal time.
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Jan 2022
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City of Darkness fresco of Hawarte

The City of Darkness unique fresco from the Mithraeum of Hawarte shows the tightest links between the western and eastern worship of Mithras in Roman Syria.
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Jan 2022
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Mithras rock-birth fresco of Hawarte

In one of Hawarte's frescoes, the rock birth of Mithras is preceded by Zeus and followed by the young Persian god suspended from a cypress tree.
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Jan 2022
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Mithraic arcosolium of Catacombe de Marcellino e Pietro

A dinner scene with Sabina from the Catacombe dei Santi Marcellino e Pietro, near Rome, may have been commissioned by a follower of Mithras.
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Jan 2022
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Fresco scene from Mitreo of Santa Maria Capua Vetere

Fresco showing a scene of initiation into the mysteries of Mithras in the Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere.
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Jan 2022
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Fresco de Luna en el Mitreo de Santa Maria Capua Vetere

Luna riding a biga in the Mithraeum of Santa Capua Vetere.
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Jan 2022
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Altar of Sol of Via del Mare

This small altar found in Rome depicts the god Sol with five rays around his head.
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Jan 2022
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Mithras riding the bull

Altar depicting the god Mithras or Cautes on a bull.
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Jan 2022
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Mithras killing the Bull from L'Origine de tous les cultes

Engraving with cosmological and symbolic mithraic elements.
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Jan 2022
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Jan 2022
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Tauroctony from Leonardo Agostini book

Tauroctony from a gemme, printed on Le gemme antiche figurate di Leonardo Agostini.
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Jan 2022
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Mithras Tauroctony and other figures from Palæographia Britannica

Palæographia Britannica: or, discourses on antiquities that relate to the history of Britain. Number III.
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Jan 2022
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Four mithraic engravings from Veterum Persarum et Parthorum et Medorum Religionis Historia

The folio depicts three tauroctonies and a Mithras Triumphantes standing on a bull with the globe in one hand and the dagger in the other.
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Jan 2022
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Imprint of a gem with Mithras killing the bull

Glass paste imprint depicting the Tauroctony surrounded by symbolic figures.
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Jan 2022
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Gemme with Mithras killing the bull

Imprint on glass of a Tauroctony exposed at Winckelmann Museum.
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Jan 2022
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Mithraic brooch of Ostia

In the Mithraic bronze brooch found in Ostia, Cautes and Cautopates have been replaced by a nightingale and a cock.
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Jan 2022
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Re-used Neolithic axe-head inscribed with a Tauroctony

According to Christopher A. Faraone, the axe-head from Argos belong to a category of thunderstones reused as amulets.
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Jan 2022
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Castor-vase of St Albans

The St Albans mithraic vase depicts fragments of three figures identified by Vermaseren as Hercules, Mercury and Mithras as an archer.
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