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Acta diurna

Daily Gazette/68

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

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Oct 2023
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Oct 2023
NewMonumentum

Cautes and Cautopates of Ostia found in 1939

This marble of Cautes was found together with his partner Cautopates in Ostia in 1939.
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Oct 2023
Syndexios

Aurelius Nectoreca

Breton centurion stationed in Volubilis, Mauretania Tingitana, known for his loyalty to Mithras and Commodus.
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Oct 2023
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Plaque of Meknès

One of the two inscriptions by Aurelius Nectoreca, a follower of Mithras, found in Meknès, Morocco.
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Oct 2023
NewMonumentum

Altar from Meknès

Two inscriptions by Aurelius Nectoreca, a follower of Mithras, have been found in Meknès, Morocco.
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Oct 2023
NewMonumentum

Cautes and Cautopates of Palermo

These two mithraic sculptures of Cautes and Cautopates belong to the same collection of Astuto de Noto, made up of mostly Sicilian monuments.
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Oct 2023
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Tiberius Claudius Thermodon

Dedicated multiple monuments to Mithras, Fortuna Primigenia and Diana in Etruria.
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Oct 2023
NewMonumentum

Inscription by Claudius Thermodon of Bolsena

The donor of this Mithraic inscription from Bolsena, a certain Tiberius Claudius Thermoron, is known from two other monuments.
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Oct 2023
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Marcus Limbricius Polides

Decurion and member of the same college as Aemilius Chrysanthus.
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Oct 2023
NewScriptum
Ne profanez pas le mot « VéRITé » en acceptant le sens qu'en donnent les hommes et les institutions. La Vérité absolue réside dans l'inaccessible et l'inconnaissable. L'esprit humain en approche sans cesse, mais ne l'atteindra jamais.
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Oct 2023
NewMonumentum

Tauroctony/Repast of Castra Pretoria

This fragment of a double relief shows a tauroctony on one side and the sacred meal, including a serving Corax, on the other.
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Oct 2023
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Fils du soleil et de la lune. La lune et le soleil dans l'imaginaire humain au fil des siècles

Certains mythes de l'Antiquité sont probablement basés sur des récits de « mort imminente » exactement les mêmes que les nôtres. Ainsi, s'expliqueraient le Paradis, l'Enfer, l'âme, le Dieu unique, nos divers «états d'âme»...
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Oct 2023
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Publius Acilius Pisonianus

Pater patratus, he financed the restoration of a Mithraeum in Milan.
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Oct 2023
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Stele of Acilius Pisonianus from Milan

This high stele by a certain Acilius Pisonianus bears an inscription commemorating the restoration of a Mithraeum in Mediolanum, today's Milan.
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Oct 2023
Liber

Quand les dieux voyagent. Cultes et mythes en mouvement dans l'espace méditerranéen antique

Ce livre présente les religions de la Méditerranée ancienne – grecque, romaine, phénicienne et punique, hébraïque et juive, mésopotamienne, égyptienne – en mouvement. Au fur et à mesure de ces histoires de dieux en voyage, les principaux enjeux inhérents à la compréhension des religions antiques émergent naturellement.
Organization of a mithraeum according to Beck and Gordon (1978).The soul of man travels through the Universe according to the cycle of the Zodiac. The Mithraeum represents this journey.Organization of a mithraeum according to Beck and Gordon (1978).The soul of man travels through the …
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Oct 2023
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Flavius Gerontios

Pater nominos at Sidon Mithraeum.
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Oct 2023
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Guntha

Together with two other brothers, he offered a relief of the tauroctony in Rome.
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Oct 2023
NewMonumentum

Tauroctony from via di Borgo

This relief of Mithras Tauroctonos from Rome bears the inscription of three brothers, two of them lions.
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Oct 2023
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Tomorrow at Centre Léon Robin, Paris, conference by Christelle Veillard on La bonne humeur du sage : affectivité et vertus stoïciennes. Do not miss if you can! More info: Centre Léon Robin de recherches sur la pensée antique - Cycle de conférences Léon Robin
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Oct 2023
Cohors

Lutetia Invicta

Au milieu des échos silencieux du Paris invincible Lutèce, une confrérie de quêteurs se plonge dans sagesse mithriaque. Tradition, secret et complicité s'entremêlent dans un voyage clandestin qui attend ceux qui écoutent la symphonie souterraine du Paris éternel.
Excellent, count me in!
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