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Archéologue et historien de l’art belge, professeur à l’université de Liège, et directeur du Domaine & Musée royal de Mariemont.
Nam cum coeperis deae servire, tunc magis senties fructum tuae libertatis.
A sixth temple dedicated to Mithras has been identified for the first time in the military sector of the ancient Roman city of Aquincum.
A certain Maximus from the Legio IV Scythica engraved his name in one of the columns of the Mithraeum of Dura Europos.
Thinking of forming a weekly group for those in the Anglosphere(USA, Canada, UK, Australia and NZ) to have a webcam call, discuss all things related to Mithras and form friends sharing a niche interest:)
Danube region can be traced back to the legions that fought under his command in Armenia.
Together with his son, with whom he shares his name, Kastos has dedicated several monuments in Rome to the glory of Zeus Helios Mithras.
Together with his father, Kastos dedicated several monuments in Rome to the glory of Zeus Helios Mithras.
The marble statue of Cautes, found in the Mithraeum of Santa Prisca, was originally a Mercury.
Garlic merchant, probably from Lusitania, who dedicated an altar to Cautes in Tarraconensis.
Freedman, he offered a monument to Mithras for the well-being of his two former masters in Apulum.
Archaeologists discovered the 20th temple dedicated to Mithras in Ostia during the restoration of the domus del Capitello di stucco in 2022.
University Student living in the Greater Toronto area. For any questions about the Anglo-Mithraic Society feel free to directly message me.
Richard Gordon suggests the object on the Miles step is a bull’s hindquarter.
“In the light of the sacrificial scene on the altar of Flavius Aper (Poetovio), the interpretation as a bull’s hind-quarter rather than shoulder is to be preferred. The scene at Ostia is perfectly in keeping with other evidence suggest- ing that (junior) Mithraic grades fulfilled specific manual tasks within the cult, in the case of Miles, butchery of sacrificial animals.”
See:
Gordon, R. 2013c. “The Miles-frame in the Mitreo di Felicissimo and the practicalities of sacrifice.” Religio: Revue Pro Religionistiku 21, no.1: 33–38.
