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Acta diurna is our Mithraic social stream for keeping up to date with what is happening in The New Mithraeum.

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Sep 2023
Syndexios

Marcus Aurelius Sabinus

Pro praetor legate during the reign of Maxime, he dedicated an altar to Mithras in Lambaesis.

 
Sep 2023
NewMonumentum

Mithraeum of Cirta

An inscription mentioning a speleum decorated by Publilius Ceionius suggests the location of a mithraeum in Cirta, the capital of Numidia.

 
Sep 2023
NewMonumentum

Dipinto in red letters from Dura Europos

This short dipinto pays homage to the Lions and the Persians, the 4th and 5th Mithraic degrees.

 
Sep 2023
NewMonumentum

Mithra's statue in Boztepe Hill

This eulogy of Saint Eugene of Trapezos tells how, in the time of Diocletian, he and two other Christian fellows destroyed a statue of Mithras.

 
Sep 2023
NewMonumentum

Zodiac signs on the Mitreo delle Sette Sfere

The rich mosaics of the Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres include the the signs of the Zodiac.

 
Sep 2023
NewMonumentum

Bench mosaics of the Mitreo delle Sette Sfere

Diana-Luna, Mercurius, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus and Mars are depicted in the mosaics on the benches of this mithraeuma.

 
Sep 2023
NewMonumentum

Mosaic of Cautes and Cautopates in the Mitreo delle Sette Sfere

At the entrance to the Mithraeum of the Seven Sferes, Cautopates holds the torch with both hands and Cautes holds the torch in his right hand and a cock in his left.

 
Sep 2023
NewMonumentum

Mosaic of Sette Sfere

The floor mosaic of the Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres, which gives its name to the temple, contains a dagger.

 
Sep 2023
Syndexios

Sextus Egnatius Primitivus

Approved priest, Augustal serf at Casuentum et Carsulae, appointed quaestor of the Augustus treasury.

 
Sep 2023
Syndexios

Lucius Caecilius Optatus

Tribune of the first cohort of Vardulli, he erected a mithraeum with his fellows in Brementium.

 
Sep 2023
Monumentum

Tabula ansata of Lucius from Bremenium

This inscription commemorates the building of a mithraeum in Bremenium with fellow worshippers of Mithras.

 
 
Jun 2023
Scriptum

hello friends , i am a Leo into my mitraeum of Pons Saravis ( Sarrebourg). I saw the fresco of Barberini mithreaum in Roma. I found it very Platonic.

 
the blue line passes exactly through Cancer, and the yellow line is for the resurrection among the stars and passes through Capricorn.
 
Sep 2023
Syndexios

Tiberius Claudius Artemidorus

The pater Artemidorus seems to be an Augustan freedman of the Claudians, of Eastern origin.

 
Sep 2023
Syndexios

Callimorphus

Callimorphus was a cashier (arkarius) of the estates of Chresimus, steward of emperors.

 
Sep 2023
NewSocius

I live in Portland Oregon and spend my time designing and crafting masks, fabrics and regalia for ritual spaces and seasonal processions.

 
Sep 2023
NewSocius

Studying Science of Religions (UC3M). Mithraeum at Lucus Augusti, comparative religion and symbolism in general.

 
Sep 2023
Monumentum

Fragment of column base from Hamadan

The base of this column bears an inscription that records the rebuilding of a palace at Ectabana 'by the favour of Ahuramaza, Anahita and Mithra'.

 
Probably at home... but I’m at work. ;-) Will get back to you.
 
Beautiful and unexpected piece, Pattie. Thanks for sharing. Do you have any more information about it besides the brief description on the British Museum page? CIMRM maybe?
 
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1899-1201-3 If this piece could be added, too, please. At the BM: (G69/dc12) Thanks!
 
British Museum: Gallery 52, display case 5 (G52/dc5)
 
Sep 2023
Syndexios

Aurelius Hermodorus

Praeses of the Noric Mediterranean province, of equestrian rank, restaured the Mithraeum of Virunum in 311.

 
Sep 2023
NewMonumentum

Tauroctony of Memphis

Discovered in Memphis, Egypt, a second relief depicting Mithras killing the bull.

 
Sep 2023
NewMonumentum

Tauroctony of Pisa

This white marble relief of Mithas killing the sacred bull was found embedded in the building of a noble family in Pisa.