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This inscription by a certain Ioulianos, found at the entrance to the Dolichenum at Dura Europos, bears an inscription to Zeus Helios Mithras et Tourmasgade.
A comrade of Charitinus, he was a freedman who consecrated an altar to Mithras for the emperors Philip the Arab and Otacilia Severa.
Freedman who consecrated an altar to Mithras for the numen and majesty of the emperors Philip the Arab and Otacilia Severa.
This stone altar found in Poreč was dedicated by two freedmen to the numen and majesty of the emperors Philip the Arab and Otacilia Severa.
Roman veteran stationed on the island of Andros, where he built a temple to Mithras.
This unfinished Mithras tauroctonos without the usual surrounding animals was found in 1923 in Italica, near Seville, Spain.
This monument, now lost, was discovered in the 16th century, probably on the site of Sublavio statio.
This marble of Cautes was found together with his partner Cautopates in Ostia in 1939.
Breton centurion stationed in Volubilis, Mauretania Tingitana, known for his loyalty to Mithras and Commodus.
One of the two inscriptions by Aurelius Nectoreca, a follower of Mithras, found in Meknès, Morocco.
Two inscriptions by Aurelius Nectoreca, a follower of Mithras, have been found in Meknès, Morocco.
These two mithraic sculptures of Cautes and Cautopates belong to the same collection of Astuto de Noto, made up of mostly Sicilian monuments.
He was initiated and cured thanks to the invincible Nabarze.
This inscription, which doesn't mention Mithras, was found near the church of Santa Balbina on the Aventine in Rome.
Dedicated multiple monuments to Mithras, Fortuna Primigenia and Diana in Etruria.
The donor of this Mithraic inscription from Bolsena, a certain Tiberius Claudius Thermoron, is known from two other monuments.
Decurion and member of the same college as Aemilius Chrysanthus.
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.
This double relief shows a tauroctony on one side and the sacred meal, including a serving Corax, on the other.
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»...