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Acta diurna

Daily Gazette/114

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Aug 2021
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Tauroctony from Quirinale

This sculpture of Mithras sacrificing the bull was found in the Quirinal and is now on display in the Musei Capitolini.
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Aug 2021
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Tauroctony from Asciano

The marble Tauroctony of Asciano, Siena, was donated by Franz Cumont to the Academia Belgica, Rome.
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Aug 2021
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Aion relief of Palazzo Colonna

The relief of Palazzo Colonna, Rome, depicts a lion-headed figure holding a burning torch in his outstretched hands.
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Aug 2021
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Mithraic relief of Baden bei Wien

Possibly a Mithraic scene discovered in Mödling, Austria.
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Aug 2021
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Tauroctony from St. Andrä vor dem Hagenthale

The votive image was donated by a certain Verus for a mithraeum which was probably located in the hinterland of the Limes.
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Aug 2021
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Sol in quadriga of Entrains

In the mithraic relief of Entrains, the god Sol is depicted riding his chariot together with Luna and a krater surrounded by a serpent.
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Aug 2021
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Mithras with bow from Dieburg

Statue in yellow sandstone found in the pit of the Mithraeum of Dieburg, showing Mithras standing beside an altar with bow and arrow, accompanied by a vase and associated with the water miracle.
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Aug 2021
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Mithraeum de Biesheim-Kunheim

The Mithraeum of Biesheim-Kunheim was located in the ancient village of Altkirch, near the Rhin.
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Aug 2021
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Mithraeum of Scarbantia

Emperor Julian is supposed to have presided over a human sacrifice in the Mithraeum of Scarbantia, according to N. Massalsky.
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Aug 2021
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La Sagesse des Chaldéens. Les Oracles chaldaïques

Originaires de Babylone, où naquit l'astrologie, les prêtres chaldéens étaient, dans le monde antique, craints et respectés pour leurs connaissances magiques et divinatoires.
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Jul 2021
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Professional author with a special interest in Greco-Roman ritual and sacred landscapes, art and philosophy.
Professional author with a special interest in Greco-Roman ritual and sacred landscapes, art and philosophy.
Jul 2021
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Tauroctony from Palermo

The assumed find-place of the Mithras Tauroctonus of Palermo is uncertain.
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Jul 2021
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Musée Saint-Raymond, musée d'Archéologie de Toulouse, associate curator of the exhibition 
Le mystère Mithra, plongée au cœur d'un culte romain.
Musée Saint-Raymond, musée d'Archéologie de Toulouse, associate curator of the exhibition
Le mystère Mithra, plongée au cœur d'un culte romain.
Jun 2021
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Freemasonry, Mithraism and the Ancient Mysteries. Foundations of Freemasonry Series

Several prominent masonic authors examine the evidence that Freemasonry is a descendent from the Ancient Mysteries in general and perhaps has some distant connection to Mithraism.
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Jun 2021
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Tauroctony from Albacini

This black marble of Mithras killing the Bull has belonged to the sculptor Carlo Albacini.
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May 2021
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Puck of Pook's Hill

Puck of Pook's Hill is a fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history.
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May 2021
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Submission scene from Barberini

This scene of the main fresco of the Mithraeum Barberini seems to depict part of the initiation into the Mithraic Mysteries.
You are right, Stephen. Thank you for noticing. We have updated the information on this article.
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May 2021
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Mosaics from Mitreo degli Animali

Several figures related to the Mysteries of Mithras are depicted on the mosaics of the Mithraeum of the Animals.
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May 2021
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Mitreo degli Animali

The Mithraeum of the Animals was decorated with a mosaic depicting a naked man, a cock, a raven, an scorpion, a snake and the head of the bull.
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May 2021
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Tauroctony exposed in the 'Sala dei Animali' of the Vatican Museaum

This Mithras killing the bull belonged to an artist before being exposed in the Musei Vatican under Pius VI.
Anonymous
This is shocking.Why would the Vatican uphold Mithraistic beliefs when they were to follow Jesus beliefs?
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