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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
 
 
Oct 2023
Syndexios

Marcus Limbricius Polides

Decurion and member of the same college as Aemilius Chrysanthus.

 
Oct 2023
NewMonumentum

Tauroctony/Repast of Castra Pretoria

This double relief shows a tauroctony on one side and the sacred meal, including a serving Corax, on the other.

 
Oct 2023
NewLiber

Fils du soleil et de la lune. La lune et le soleil dans l'imaginaire humain au fil des siècles

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»...

 
Oct 2023
Syndexios

Publius Acilius Pisonianus

Pater patratus, he financed the restoration of a Mithraeum in Milan.

 
Oct 2023
NewMonumentum

Stele of Acilius Pisonianus from Milan

This high stele by a certain Acilius Pisonianus bears an inscription commemorating the restoration of a Mithraeum in Mediolanum, today's Milan.

 
Dec 2023
Liber

Quand les dieux voyagent. Cultes et mythes en mouvement dans l'espace méditerranéen antique

Ce livre présente les religions de la Méditerranée ancienne – grecque, romaine, phénicienne et punique, hébraïque et juive, mésopotamienne, égyptienne – en mouvement. Au fur et à mesure de ces histoires de dieux en voyage, les principaux enje…

 
Organization of a mithraeum according to Beck and Gordon (1978).The soul of man travels through the Universe according to the cycle of the Zodiac. The Mithraeum represents this journey.
 
Oct 2023
Syndexios

Flavius Gerontios

Pater nominos at Sidon Mithraeum.

 
Oct 2023
Syndexios

Guntha

Together with two other brothers, he offered a relief of the tauroctony in Rome.

 
Oct 2023
NewMonumentum

Tauroctony of via di Borgo

This relief of Mithras Tauroctonos from Rome bears the inscription of three brothers, two of them lions.

 
Oct 2023
 
Scriptum

Tomorrow at Centre Léon Robin, Paris, conference by Christelle Veillard on La bonne humeur du sage : affectivité et vertus stoïciennes. Do not miss if you can! More info: Centre Léon Robin de recherches sur la pensée antique - Cycle de conférences Léon Robin

 
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Oct 2023
NewMonumentum

Album of Portus

This marble tablet found at Portus Ostiae mentions a pater, a lion donor and a series of male names, probably from a Mithraic community.

 
Oct 2023
Syndexios

Gaius Valerius Heracles

Pater and priest of the Fagan Mithtraeum with several monuments under his name.

 
Oct 2023
NewMonumentum

Statue of a mother goddess with child

This unusual statue in Mithraic iconography of a mother nursing a child was found in the vestibule of the Mithraeum of Dieburg.

 
Oct 2023
Syndexios

Gaius Iulius Crescens

He devoted an altar to the Mother Goddesses for Respectus, found at the Mithraeum of Friedberg.

 
Oct 2023
NewMonumentum

Altar of Gaius Iulius Crescens of Friedberg for Respectus

This fragmented altar of a certain Caius Iulius Crescens, found in the Mithraeum of Friedberg, bears an inscription to the Mother Goddesses.

 
Oct 2023
NewMonumentum

Tauroctony of the Mitreo dell'Esquilino

This simple relief of Mithras killing the bull without his companions Cautes and Cautopates was found in the so-called Mithraeum of the Esquilino, Rome.

 
Oct 2023
Syndexios

Aurelius Iustinianus

Dux of Pannonia Prima et Noricum Ripense, he built a mithraeum in Poetovio.

 
Oct 2023
NewMonumentum

Inscription of Aurelius Iustinianus from Ptuj

This inscription belongs to the 4th mithraeum found in the modern town of Ptuj.

 
Sep 2023
NewMonumentum

Altar of Nummius Amandus from Alba Iulia

This altar dedicated to the Invincible Sol Mithra was found in 1878 in a cemetery in Alba Iulia.

 
Sep 2023
NewMonumentum

Tauroctony of Aelius Hylas of Doştat

This monument bears an inscription by a certain Lucius Aelius Hylas, in which he associates Sol Invictus with Jupiter.