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Acta diurna

Daily Gazette/88

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 2022
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Head of Minerva from London

This head was found at the east end of temple of Mithras in London.
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Oct 2022
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Mithras head of Walbrook

The Mithras's head of Walbrook probable belonged to a life-size scene of the god scarifying the bull.
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Oct 2022
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Mithraeum of Inveresk

The Mithraeum of Inveresk, south of Musselburgh, East Lothian, is the first found in Scotland, and the earliest securely dated example from Britain.
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Oct 2022
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London Mithraeum

The Mithraeum of London, also known as the Walbrook Mithraeum, was contextualised and relocated to its original site in 2016.
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Oct 2022
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Kneeling man from Santa Maria Capua Vetere

This scene from the frescoes of the Mitreo di Santa Maria Capua Vetere shows a kneeling, naked man surrounded by two other figures.
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Oct 2022
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A man is initiated into the Mysteries of Mithras

This is the first of several fresco scenes depicting the initiation of a new member in a mithraic community, in Capua Vetere.
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Oct 2022
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Tauroctony from the Mitreo delle terme di Mitra

The person who commanded the sculpture may have been M. Umbilius Criton, documented in the Mitreo della Planta Pedis.
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Oct 2022
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Inscription of Aphrodisius

This inscription by a certain Aphrodisius was found under the old city hall of Algiers.
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Oct 2022
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Chyndonax (Χυνδόναξ)

The cenders of Chyndonax were found on an urn with an inscription that reads High Priest of Mithras.
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Oct 2022
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Inscription of Chyndonax

This inscription on an antique funeral urn mentions a certain high priest of Mithras.
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Oct 2022
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Mithraeum of Mackwiller

The Mackwiller Mithraeum was built in the middle of the 2nd century, during the reign of Antoninus the Pious, on the site of a spring already worshipped by the natives.
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Oct 2022
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Head of Mithras of Mackwiller

This fragment of the head of a young Mithras is one of the finds made during the excavations carried out by Jean-Jacques Hatt at Mackwiller, France, in 1955.
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Oct 2022
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Csaba Szabó is a research fellow of the University of Szeged (Hungary).
Csaba Szabó is a research fellow of the University of Szeged (Hungary).
Oct 2022
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Dutch historian, born in 1918 and deceased in 1985. He was a specialist in the history of religions, especially the Eastern cults in the Roman Empire. A prolific writer, best known for his Corpus inscriptionum et monumentorum religionis Mithriacae.
Dutch historian, born in 1918 and deceased in 1985. He was a specialist in the history of religions, especially the Eastern cults in the Roman Empire. A prolific writer, best known for his Corpus inscriptionum et monumentorum religionis Mithriacae.
Aug 2022
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Relief of Tauroctony from Sidon

The relief of the Sidon Tauroctony includes the signs of the zodiac and the four seasons, among other common elements.
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Aug 2022
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Sabazeo

The Mithraeum was found in one of the rooms of the Horrea built in the years 120 - 125 AD. The installation of the shrine may have taken place in the first half of the third century.
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May 2022
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Mitreo di Lucrezio Menandro

The Mithraeum of Lucretius Menander was installed in the early 3rd century in an alley to the east of a Hadrianic building named after the solar god temple.
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Apr 2022
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Rem tene, verba sequentur.
Rem tene, verba sequentur.
Apr 2022
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Cautes with an axe

The Cautes of Sidon who wields an axe also wears a piece of cloth on his left arm.
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Apr 2022
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Second Cautes of Sidon holding an axe

In this case, a quiver has been attached to the tree-stump behind the torchbearer.
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