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Acta diurna

Daily Gazette/109

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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Mithraic vase of Lezoux

This terracotta vase features prolific decoration, including Mithras Tauroctonos, Fortuna, Cautes, a dog and Pan playing a syrinx.
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Jan 2022
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Tauroctony from Sisak

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull of Sisak includes the zodiac and multiple scenes from the myth of Mithras.
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Jan 2022
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Bronze plaque of Sisak

This small bronze tabula ansata was dedicated to Mithras by two brothers, probably not related by blood.
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Jan 2022
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Head of Mithras from Santo Stefano Rotondo

The head was part of a stucco relief of the Tauroctony found under the church of Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome
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Jan 2022
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Mariemont dévoile <br>(en partie) les Mystères de Mithra

L'exposition Le Mystère de Mithra s'initie au Musée de Mariemont, en Belgique, patrie de Franz Cumont, père des études sur le dieu solaire.
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Jan 2022
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Tales from English Folklore #3: The Cult of Mithras

On Hadrian's Wall lies the ruin of a subterranean temple to a little-known god, at the centre of a secretive Roman cult.
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Jan 2022
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The Literary Holy Grail of Mithraic Studies, East and West: The Parthian Epic of Samak-e ʿAyyar

Prof. Parvaneh Pourshariati; 9th European Conference of Iranian Studies, Free University of Berlin, September 2019.
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Jan 2022
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Serapis head of Walbrook

The head of Serapis found at Walbrook, London, is decorated with stylised olive branches.
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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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Fresco ‘City of Darkness’ from 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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