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

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Jul 2024
Comentum

A beautiful piece of art, which indeed seems to be quite inspired by the mithraic Aion. Thank you for sharing this

 
Thank you Gabriel. Nice to read you
 
Same here!
 
Jun 2024
NewComentum

Thank you! ☺️ So nice!

 
Jul 2024
 
Scriptum

The twelve labors or Hercules 💪
Cool piece of art via ΑΤΕΧΝΟΣ
via https://x.com/CastellsOnofre

 
Jul 2024
 
NewScriptum

europeana is getting bigger all the time, and already has got a great collection of mithraic monuments (not as many as the new mithraeum, but some good ones!). Have a look: https://www.europeana.eu/search?query=mithras

 
Jul 2024
 
NewScriptum

We’ve put together a new table of cross-references of monuments to Mithras in several databases, including Vermaseren’s Corpus, Cumont’s Textes, CIL, l’Année épigraphique, Clauss / Slaby and Heldeiberg’s epigraphic databases, and more.

You can find all the references to multiple databases on one page here: Table of references for mithraic artefacts.

We’re constantly adding new references to The New Mithraeum, so feel free to check it out to see what’s new!

 
Jul 2024
 
Scriptum

Hello everybody. Does anyone know the opening hours of San Clemente in Rome? I went last week with a friend and it was closed

 
Strange! I am not in Rome, but I would expect it to be open every day, even more in the summer! Anyhow, here are their opening hours: https://turismoroma.it/es/node/43919
 
Dec 2023
 
Scriptum

It is indeed surprising to see Mithras represented in the Middle Ages, as we tend to assume that paganism was forgotten at an early date. Well, some representations of Mithras killing the bull in key locations in Europe prove the opposite. To what extent did medieval masons know about the cult of Mithras?

Here are the best known examples:

* Tauroctony of Monreale
* Tauroctony of Santo Domingo de Silos
* Tauroctony of Aula Gotica

 
Update! Found a new post-classical monument, this one from the French Renaissance: Saul depicted as Mithras Tauroctonos. And from now on, all post-classical monuments will be available here: https://www.mithraeum.eu/quaere.php?tag=postclassical
 
Jul 2024
Syndexios

Gaius Iulius

For the health of this man, a small altar was dedicated to the god Invictus in the Emerita Augusta.

 
Jul 2024
Syndexios

Alcimus

Slave and bailiff of Tiberius Claudius Livianus.

 
Oct 2023
 
NewScriptum

Summary of Mithraic philosophy on a drawing of an ornate temple.

It is possible to draw the organisation of a Mithraeum, and also his philosophical consequences. For example, the two columns were probably very different: the south column was 'human'. the winter column. Reincarnated souls appeared there, And further, pure and philosophical souls left through the gate of Capricorn. The northern column was summer time. Pure souls entered the world of the gods, and imperfect souls were rejected by the Moon and passed through the door of Cancer to be reincarnated (metempsychosis), after a six-month journey that became darker and darker.

 
Jul 2024
 
Scriptum
Anonymous

Salvete fratres,

I created a fresh new Discord server. Here is the invitation which is valid until 21 July 2024. If you are interested in joining, read the regulations carefully first. If the link doesn’t work DM on Discord at lupuslux.

Valete.

https://discord.gg/aU2WefC8

 
Anonymous
Quick brothers! Join the Discord server by Sunday 21.07.2024 at 11.59 pm CET. If not enough people join by that date I will delete the server permanently.
 
Jul 2024
Syndexios

Sextus Vervicius Eutyches

Textile merchant from Augusta Treverorum and Pater of his community, he left testimony of his cult to Mithras in the 3rd century.

 
Jul 2024
Socius

Nam cum coeperis deae servire, tunc magis senties fructum tuae libertatis.

 
Jul 2024
Syndexios

Publius Aelius Valerianus

Soldier of Legio XIII Gemina and strator consularis who dedicated an altar to the invincible Mithras.

 
Jul 2024
Syndexios

Celsianus

Actuarius and notarius, Celsianus dedicated an altar to Sol Mithras for the health of two illustrious men.

 
Jul 2024
NewMonumentum

Altar of Aelius Valerianus from Illmitz

Found in Illmitz, Austria, in 1959, this altar was dedicated to the unconquered god Mithras by a certain Aelius Valerianus.

 
Jul 2024
NewMonumentum

Altar of Valerianus from Ceanu Mic

This is the second altar found in Ceanu Mic to date, dedicated to an Invictus being.

 
Jul 2024
NewMonumentum

Altar of Cetate

This limestone altar to Sol Invictus Mithra was found at Turda in 1905.

 
Jul 2024
Socius

Interested in Mithras since 1990.

 
Jul 2024
Syndexios

Hector Corneliorum

Hector erected an altar to Mithras in Emerita Augusta ’by means of a divine vision’, something unusual in Hispania.