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Community dedicated to the study, disclosure and reenactment of the Mysteries of Mithras since 2004.
The following note deserved an entry in Vermaseren’s Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae.
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.
In the cult niche of the Mitreo del Caseggiato di Diana there is a list of words that could indicate names and measurements.
A bearded Bacchus and another hermes as a woman, both crowned with vine tendrils, were walled into the base of a niche.
Doryphorus gave his grade and name in a monumental candalabrum found in Rome.
This magnificent candelabrum was found in Rome in 1803, in the Syrian Temple of Janicule.
Murius Victor was an aedile of Civitas Taunensium who, in fulfilment of a vow, built an altar to Mithras.
Marius Victor, according to the inscription on the monument, erected this monument to Mithras ’when Philip and Titianus were consuls’.
These fragments of a cult relief of Mithras were found at the Mithraeum II of Ptuj, Slovenia.
These two fragments of a sandstone relief were walled into a house on the market square in Besigheim.
A number of metal objects and weapons have been found in the Mithraeum of Les Bolards, close to Nuits-Saint-Georges in France.
This head of Italian marble, found at Arles, probably belongs to a sculpure of Mithras.
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.
This low relief on an altar of Mithras killing the bull was found in a church in Pisignano, south of Ravenna.
This statue of Mithras as a bullkiller was bought at Rome where it might be found.
Chrestos was a Pater who dedicated a relief to Mithras with his comrade Gauros.
This relief of Mithras killing the bull, signed by a certain Χρῆστος, is on display in the Sala dei Animali of the Vatican Museum.
This is one of the three reliefs depicting Mithras killing the bull that the Louvre Museum acquired from the Roman Villa Borghese collection.
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.
This sculpture of Mithras killing the bull the belongs to the Louvre museum is currently exposed in Varsovia.
