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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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Joined December 2020
 
 
May 2023
Syndexios

Gaius Victorius Victorinus

Centurion of the Legio VII Gemina Antoniana Pia Felix who erected the only known mithraeum at Lucus Augusti to date.

 
May 2023
NewLiber

El dios Mitra. Los orígenes de su culto anterior al mitraísmo romano

En este libro se presenta un trabajo de investigación que contiene un considerable volumen de información disponible sobre el Dios Mitra que permite componer una imagen, lo más completa posible, sobre los elementos que intervinieron en el proceso de ad…

 
May 2023
NewVideo

La Légende de Mithra

This short animation traces one of the interpretations of the Mithras legend based on archaeological research.

 
May 2023
Monumentum

Roman Marble Relief Panel with Birth of Mithras

Mithras emerging from the rock with torch and dagger beside a reclining Oceanus or Saturn.

 
May 2023
Monumentum

Rock birth from St Aubin

Mithras Petrogenitus from Saint-Aubin en France.

 
May 2023
NewVideo

Le culte romain de Mithra par Richard Veymiers

Le culte romain de Mithra. Entre réalités antiques et fantasmes contemporains ! Par Richard Veymiers, directeur du Domaine et Musée royal de Mariemont.

 
May 2023
Monumentum

Mithraea of Heddernheim

Since 1826, four mithraea have been found at Nida-Heddernheim.

 
May 2023
Monumentum

Key of Mithraeum III at Nida

The key of Nida's Mithraeum III was decorated with a lion's head.

 
May 2023
Monumentum

Mithras rock-birth of Mithraeum III, Ptuj

Cautes and Cautopates attend the birth of Mithras from the rock in the Petrogenia of the third Mithraeum of Ptuj.

 
May 2023
Syndexios

Gaius Sacidius Barbarus

Centurion who dedicated the first known Latin inscription to the invincible Mithras.

 
May 2023
Syndexios

Flavios Gerontios

Pater nominos at Sidon Mithraeum.

 
May 2023
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Neuenheim

The Tauroctony relief of Neuenheim, Heidelberg, includes several scenes from the deeds of Mithras and other gods.

 
May 2023
Monumentum

Mithras riding a horse from Neuenheim

Mithras galloping, in a cypress forest, carrying a globe in one hand and accompanied by a lion and a snake.

 
May 2023
Monumentum

Mount Nemrut Dağı

Mount Nemrut or Nemrud is one of the highest peaks in the eastern Taurus Mountains, southeastern Turkey. On its summit large statues stand around what is supposed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BC.

 
May 2023
Monumentum

Head of Mithras from the Mithraeum of Angers

The head of Mithras of Angers has been found a four months after the main relief.

 
Requi
Just read why they decided to continue to dig under the mithraeum before complaining: http://www.angers.maville.com/actu/actudet_-Et-le-dieu-Mithra-sortit-du-ventre-de-la-terre..._loc-1531774_actu.Htm They found more about the site history in doing so !
 
Look at that the satisfaction of that man who's showing that discover during the time the sanctuar of Mithra from Angers (back) is destroted ! It's archéological pillaing !
 
May 2023
Syndexios

Mercatorius Castrensis

Offered the famous Tauroctony of Osterburken to the unconquerable sun god Mithras.

 
May 2023
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Osterburken

Franz Cumont considers the bas relief of Osterburken 'the most remarkable of all the monuments of the cult of Mithras found up to now'.

 
I would humbly suggest that #6 on the left might be a representation of Narcissus, having fallen in love with his own reflection, the disfigured object in his hand might be a narcissus flower and the confusing object resembling a Chlamys upon which he is resting might be the depiction of the pool where he saw his reflection. What strikes me is the inclusion among the left side sequence of specific figures and their primary mythic stories, which had psychological and cautionary moral messages. From the combination of depictions in the entire Tauroctony, the Mithras cult appears to be a new 'revelation' or addition to the traditional Greek religious system, amalgamating Babylonian Astrology, Greco-Roman mythology and some new 'Persian' mythos.
 
May 2023
Monumentum

Mithräum von Osterburken

The Mithraeum of Osterburken could not be excavated bodily owing to the water of a well in the immediate neighbourhood. The monument had been covered carefully with sand.

 
May 2023
Syndexios

Titus Flavius Hyginus Ephebianus

Freedman who dedicated the first monument mentioning a Pater.

 
May 2023
Syndexios

Hector Corneliorum

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