Daily Gazette/108

This sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull was bequeathed to the Republic of Venice in 1793 by Ambassador Girolamo Zulian.

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull found on the Esquiline Hill includes two additional scenes with Mithras and two other figures.

The relief of Mithras being born from the rock of the Esquiline shows the young god naked, as usual, with a torch and a dagger in his hands.

Except for the serpent, the sculpture of the taurcotony found on the Esquiline Hill lacks the usual animals that accompany Mithras in sacrifice.

At about a mile's distance from the village of Mit-Rahine near Memphis a Mithraeum has been discovered, which itself has not yet been described.

In a house from the time of Constantine, a Lararium was found with a statue of Isis-Fortuna. The Mithraeum was a door next to it, on a lower room.

García y Bellido proposed the existence of a mithraeum in a narrow, elongated room where the Troia mithraic relief was found.

The Mitreo dei Marmi Colorati takes its name after the discovery of a black-and-white mosaic of Pan fighting with Eros.

Several iron fragments found in the second mithraeum of Güglingen may have been used during mithraic ceremonies.

In 1973, Robert J. Bull began the excavation of a vault on the south side of the Inner Harbor of Caesarea Maritima, Israel. The vault was one of a row of warehouses built to store goods unloaded from the harbor built by Herod the Great.

Of this great relief of Mithras slaying the bull only a few segments remain.

Maarten Vermaseren acquired this rosso antico marble of Mithras slaying the bull in 1961.

A limestone lion holding a flowing urn, discovered at the entrance of the Mithraeum of Les Bolards, reflects the ritual significance of water within the cult of Mithras.

This Mithraic temple, now disappeared, is known thanks to the numerous remains recorded since 1594 in the 'Memorie di varie antichità trovate in diversi luoghi della città di Roma'.

En suivant les traces de Mithra, le Musée royal de Mariemont vous plonge dans l’un des cultes les plus mystérieux et fascinants de l’Antiquité romaine.

Raconter la légende de Mithra, le jeune dieu désigné par Jupiter pour sauver la Terre de la sécheresse et l’Univers du chaos, jamais personne n’avait encore osé le faire ! Pour la toute première fois, deux des acteurs principaux de cette extraor...

VIIIe siècle après Jésus-Christ : le culte de Mithra est devenu la religion officielle de l’Empire romain, et les autres cultes, dont celui de la petite secte chrétienne, sont férocement réprimés.

From the late first century CE, Mithras spread across the Roman Empire, leaving more than 130 sanctuaries and nearly 1,000 inscriptions. This volume offers a rigorous synthesis that renews our understanding of this enigmatic cult.

Curator of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Royal Museum of Mariemont (Belgium)

Research fields
– Archaeology of the Oriental cults in the Roman Empire
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