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Acta diurna

Daily Gazette/91

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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Altar from Mérida 'pro salute'

The small Mithraic altar found at Cerro de San Albin, Merida, bears an inscription to the health of Caius Iulius.
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Oct 2022
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Arula by Lucius Petreius of Cabrera de Mar

Small arula with mithraic inscription and dedication to Cautes from a garlic merchant.
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Oct 2022
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Altar with inscription from Baetulo

This altar was dedicated to Cautes by a certain Lucius in Baetulo (Badalona), near Barcino (Barcelona).
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Oct 2022
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Lucius Valerius Monteius

He dedicated an inscription to Cautes in Baetulo, near present-day Barcelona.
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Oct 2022
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First Tauroctony relief of Dura Europos

One of the reliefs of the Dura Europos tauroctonies includes several characters with their respective names.
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Oct 2022
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Mithraeum of Dura Europos

The most emblematic of the Syrian Mithraea was discovered in 1933 by a team led by the Russian historian Mikhaïl Rostovtzeff.
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Oct 2022
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Frescoes of 'Magis' from Dura Europos

Some scholars have speculated that the scrolls both figures hold in their hands represent Eastern doctrines brought to the Western world.
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Oct 2022
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Tauroctony on display in Princeton

This sculpture of Mithras killing the bull may come from Rome, probably found in 1919.
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Oct 2022
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Tauroctony exhibited at the Cincinnati Art Museum

In the tauroctonic relief on display at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Mithras slaughters the bull over a rocky background.
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Oct 2022
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Tauroctony on display in Boston

This fragmentary relief depicts Mithras killing the bull in the usual manner, remarkably dressed in oriental attire.
As of 2022 this piece is currently NOT on display.
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Oct 2022
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Tauroctony on displya at the Getty Museum

This fragmentary scupture of Mithras killing the bull belongs to the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA.
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Oct 2022
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Niasar Cave

The Niasar Cave, غار نیاسر, was a temple probably devoted to Iranian Mithras that dates back to the early Partian era.
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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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