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The New Mithraeum

Community dedicated to the study, disclosure and reenactment of the Mysteries of Mithras since 2004.

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Oct 2023
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Note from Franz Cumont on Sidon discoveries

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The following note deserved an entry in Vermaseren’s Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae.

 
Oct 2023
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Mithraeum of Qasr ibn Wardan

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According to F. Cumont, the Bedouins told a legend from which Nöldeke concluded that the castle of Quasr-ibn-Wardân was a fort with a mithraeum.

 
Oct 2023
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Graffito of the Mitreo del Caseggiato di Diana

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In the cult niche of the Mitreo del Caseggiato di Diana there is a list of words that could indicate names and measurements.

 
Oct 2023
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Hermae of the Mitreo del Caseggiato di Diana

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A bearded Bacchus and another hermes as a woman, both crowned with vine tendrils, were walled into the base of a niche.

 
Oct 2023
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Doryphorus

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Doryphorus gave his grade and name in a monumental candalabrum found in Rome.

 
Oct 2023
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Candelabrum of Doryphorus

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This magnificent candelabrum was found in Rome in 1803, in the Syrian Temple of Janicule.

 
Oct 2023
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Murius Victor

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Murius Victor was an aedile of Civitas Taunensium who, in fulfilment of a vow, built an altar to Mithras.

 
Oct 2023
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Altar of Murius Victor from Frankfurt

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Marius Victor, according to the inscription on the monument, erected this monument to Mithras ’when Philip and Titianus were consuls’.

 
Oct 2023
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Mithraic vignettes of Ptuj

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These fragments of a cult relief of Mithras were found at the Mithraeum II of Ptuj, Slovenia.

 
Oct 2023
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Mithraic vignettes of Besigheim

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These two fragments of a sandstone relief were walled into a house on the market square in Besigheim.

 
Oct 2023
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Weapons from Les Bolards

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A number of metal objects and weapons have been found in the Mithraeum of Les Bolards, close to Nuits-Saint-Georges in France.

 
Oct 2023
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Mithras head of Arles

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This head of Italian marble, found at Arles, probably belongs to a sculpure of Mithras.

 
Oct 2023
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Altar of Bergamo

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This altar to Deo Invicto was found during the excavation of the Monastero Delle Benedettine di Santa Grata in Bergamo, with a bronze calf’s head on top.

 
Oct 2023
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Altar of Pisignano

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This low relief on an altar of Mithras killing the bull was found in a church in Pisignano, south of Ravenna.

 
Oct 2023
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Tauroctony in Copenhagen

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This statue of Mithras as a bullkiller was bought at Rome where it might be found.

 
Oct 2023
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Χρῆστος

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Chrestos was a Pater who dedicated a relief to Mithras with his comrade Gauros.

 
Oct 2023
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Tauroctony of Chrestos

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This relief of Mithras killing the bull, signed by a certain Χρῆστος, is on display in the Sala dei Animali of the Vatican Museum.

 
Oct 2023
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Tauroctony relief of Villa Borghese

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This is one of the three reliefs depicting Mithras killing the bull that the Louvre Museum acquired from the Roman Villa Borghese collection.

 
Oct 2023
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Tauroctony relief found between Porta Portese and St Pancrace

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Franz Cumont bought this relief of Mithras as a bullkiller from a dealer who claimed to have found it in a vineyard near the church of Saint Pancrace, in Rome.

 
Oct 2023
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Tauroctony sculpture of Villa Borghese

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This sculpture of Mithras killing the bull the belongs to the Louvre museum is currently exposed in Varsovia.

 
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