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Daily Gazette

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

 
 
October 2023
Syndexios

Tiberius Claudius Quintilianus

Known for the donation of the bronze plaque of Virunum.

 
October 2023
Syndexios

Ursinus

Offered an inscription to Mithras in Virunum.

 
October 2023
NewMonumentum

Torchbearer restored as Paris

This sculpture, probably of Cautopates, now in the Musei Vaticani, was transformed into Paris.

 
October 2023
NewMonumentum

Tauroctony of Santa Prisca

Even if only a few fragments remain, it is very likely that the main niche of the Mitreo di Santa Prisca contained the usual representation of Mithras killing the bull.

 
October 2023
NewMonumentum

Oceanus-Saturn of Santa Prisca

The fragmented tauroctony of the Mitreo di Santa Prisca rests on the naked figure of a bearded man, probably Ocean or Saturn.

 
October 2023
NewMonumentum

Tauroctony of Capri

It is not certain that the marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was found on Capri, in the cave of Matromania, where a Mithraeum could have been established.

 
October 2023
Syndexios

Hermes

Slave of a certain Macus Iulius Eunicus, Hermes dedicated a monument to Silvanus found in the Mitreo della Planta Pedis.

 
October 2023
Syndexios

Flavius Antistianus

Pater patrorum of equestrian rank, he was a prominent figure in the Mithraic sphere in Rome.

 
October 2023
NewMonumentum

Painted tauroctony of Rome

This unusual mural depicting Mithras killing the bull was found near the Colosseum in 1668.

 
October 2023
NewMonumentum

Inscription of Flavius Antistianus from Rome

This inscription was dedicated to God Cautes by a certain Flavius Antistianus, Pater Patrorum in Rome.

 
October 2023
NewSocius

Human

 
October 2023
Syndexios

Fructus

He paid for the mosaic of the Mitreo del Sabazeo in Ostia.

 
October 2023
Syndexios

Commodus

Roman emperor, son of the emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius.

 
October 2023
Syndexios

Marcus Porcius Verus

Procurator of the emperor, Porcius Verus erected a.

 
October 2023
Syndexios

Publius Aelius Vocco

Soldier of the XXII Legio Primigenia Pia Fidelis stationed in Mainz that erected an altar to Mithras in Sumelocenna.

 
October 2023
NewMonumentum

Fragments of altars from Gimmeldingen

These fragmentary monuments, one with an inscription, were found in the Gimmeldingen mithraeum.

 
October 2023
NewMonumentum

Altar to Luna from Gimmeldingen

This sandstone altar was dedicated to Luna, who is mentioned as a male deity.

 
October 2023
NewMonumentum

Tauroctony of Ruše

This relief of Mithras tauroctonus and other finds were discovered in 1845 in Ruše, where a Mithraeum probably existed.

 
October 2023
NewMonumentum

Tauroctony of Donja Plemenšćina, Pregrada

This primitive relief of Mithras as a bullkiller is signed by a certain Valerius Marcelianus.

 
October 2023
NewMonumentum

Cautes of Sisak

This marble relief of Cautes was found in 1863 in Sisak, Croatia.