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Oct 2023
NewMonumentum

Inscription to Tourmasgade of Dura Europos

This inscription by a certain Ioulianos, found at the entrance to the Dolichenum at Dura Europos, bears an inscription to Zeus Helios Mithras et Tourmasgade.

 
Oct 2023
Syndexios

Sabinianus

A comrade of Charitinus, he was a freedman who consecrated an altar to Mithras for the emperors Philip the Arab and Otacilia Severa.

 
Oct 2023
Syndexios

Charitinus

Freedman who consecrated an altar to Mithras for the numen and majesty of the emperors Philip the Arab and Otacilia Severa.

 
Oct 2023
NewMonumentum

Altar of Poreč

This stone altar found in Poreč was dedicated by two freedmen to the numen and majesty of the emperors Philip the Arab and Otacilia Severa.

 
Oct 2023
Syndexios

Marcus Aurelius Rufinus

Roman veteran stationed on the island of Andros, where he built a temple to Mithras.

 
Oct 2023
NewMonumentum

Tauroctony of Santiponce

This unfinished Mithras tauroctonos without the usual surrounding animals was found in 1923 in Italica, near Seville, Spain.

 
Oct 2023
NewMonumentum

Inscription of Valentinus Secundionis

This monument, now lost, was discovered in the 16th century, probably on the site of Sublavio statio.

 
Oct 2023
NewMonumentum

Cautes and Cautopates of Ostia found in 1939

This marble of Cautes was found together with his partner Cautopates in Ostia in 1939.

 
Oct 2023
Syndexios

Aurelius Nectoreca

Breton centurion stationed in Volubilis, Mauretania Tingitana, known for his loyalty to Mithras and Commodus.

 
Oct 2023
NewMonumentum

Plaque of Meknès

One of the two inscriptions by Aurelius Nectoreca, a follower of Mithras, found in Meknès, Morocco.

 
Oct 2023
NewMonumentum

Altar of Meknès

Two inscriptions by Aurelius Nectoreca, a follower of Mithras, have been found in Meknès, Morocco.

 
Oct 2023
NewMonumentum

Cautes and Cautopates of Palermo

These two mithraic sculptures of Cautes and Cautopates belong to the same collection of Astuto de Noto, made up of mostly Sicilian monuments.

 
Oct 2023
Syndexios

Terentius Priscus Eucheta

He was initiated and cured thanks to the invincible Nabarze.

 
Oct 2023
NewMonumentum

Base with inscription of Priscus Eucheta to Navarze

This inscription, which doesn't mention Mithras, was found near the church of Santa Balbina on the Aventine in Rome.

 
Oct 2023
Syndexios

Tiberius Claudius Thermodon

Dedicated multiple monuments to Mithras, Fortuna Primigenia and Diana in Etruria.

 
Oct 2023
NewMonumentum

Inscription by Claudius Thermodon of Bolsena

The donor of this Mithraic inscription from Bolsena, a certain Tiberius Claudius Thermoron, is known from two other monuments.

 
Oct 2023
Syndexios

Marcus Limbricius Polides

Decurion and member of the same college as Aemilius Chrysanthus.

 
 
Oct 2023
NewScriptum

Mithras Dualism. What are the Philosophical Consequences?

Summary of Mithraic philosophy on a drawing of an ornate temple.

It is possible to draw the organisation of a Mithraeum, and also his philosophical consequences. For example, the two columns were probably very different: the south column was 'human'. the winter column. Reincarnated souls appeared there, And further, pure and philosophical souls left through the gate of Capricorn. The northern column was summer time. Pure souls entered the world of the gods, and imperfect souls were rejected by the Moon and passed through the door of Cancer to be reincarnated (metempsychosis), after a six-month journey that became darker and darker.

 
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»...