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Acta diurna

Daily Gazette/64

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

 
Jan 2022
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Tauroctony from Leonardo Agostini book

Tauroctony from a gemme, printed on Le gemme antiche figurate di Leonardo Agostini.
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.
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.
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.
Jan 2022
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Gemme with Mithras killing the bull

Imprint on glass of a Tauroctony exposed at Winckelmann Museum.
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In the Mithraic bronze brooch found in Ostia, Cautes and Cautopates have been replaced by a nightingale and a cock.
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.
Jan 2022
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Mithraeum of Skikda

Many of the inscriptions and sculptures of the site were kept in a museum which has been destroyed.
Jan 2022
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Aion of Skikda

The lion-headed figure of Skikda includes a pine-apple beside his feet.
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.
Jan 2022
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Mithras tauroctonus and taurophorus vessel from Lanuvium

The red ceramic vessel from Lanuvium shows Mithra carrying the bull, followed by the dog, and the Tauroctony on the opposite side.
Jan 2022
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Mithraeum of Eleusis

A Mithraeum has been identified in Eleusis where the last Hierophant form thespia had the rank of Father in the Mithraic Mysteries.
Jan 2022
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Tauroctony of Memphis

This Mithras killing the Bull relief from Memphis, Egypt, it is preserved in the Museum of Cairo.
Jan 2022
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Aion of Memphis

This statue of the god lion-head was found in Memphis, Egypt.
Jan 2022
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Aion of Oxyrhynchus

According to Pettazzoni Aion in general finds its iconographical origin in Egypt. Mithras must have been worshipped in Egypt in the third century B.C.
Jan 2022
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Mitreo de la Tumba del Elefante

The Mithraeum of the Elephant tomb is located in Roman necropolis. In one of the burials the statue of an elephant was found.
Jan 2022
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Tauroctonia de Córdoba

Fragmentary marble statue of Mithras Tauroctonos from Córdoba.
Jan 2022
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Ceremonial sword of Riegel

The Mithraic sword found in the Riegel Mithraeum may have been used as a prop during rituals.
Jan 2022
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Mithraic vase of Mühltal

The Mühltal Mithraic crater was discovered among the artefacts of a mithraeum found in Pfaffenhoffen am Inn, Bavaria.
Jan 2022
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Tauroctony of Macerata

The Macerata Tauroctony shows Mithra slaying the bull with the usual Pyrigian cap and six rays around his head.
 
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