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Daily Gazette

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

 
 
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.

 
 
May 2023
Syndexios

Marcus Antonius Victorinus

Founder of the second Mithraeum of Aquincum.

 
 
May 2023
NewSocius

I’m an author, finding what windows into the past he can gaze through.

 
May 2023
Monumentum

Aion of Arles

The Aion of Arles includes nine signs of the zodiac in three groups of three, between the spirals of the serpent.

 
May 2023
Monumentum

Antiochus I shakes hands with naked Apollo-Mithras-Helios

Stele representing Apollo-Mithras-Helios in a Hellenistic nude fashion, shaking hands with Antiochus I.

 
May 2023
Monumentum

Bronze inscription from Aldobrandini

This plaque, now on display in the British Museum, may have come from the Aldobrandini Mithraeum in Ostia.

 
April 2023
Monumentum

Gnostic amulet with Mithras monogram

This silver amulet depicts Abraxas on one side and the first verses of the Book of Genesis in Hebrew on the other.

 
April 2023
NewComentum

here is the altar of Sarrebourg , picture tooken in 1890.

In Monumentum
 

Tauroctony of Sarrebourg

The Tauroctony of Saarbourg (Sarrebourg, ancient Pons Sarravi), France, contains most of Mithras deeds known in a single relief.

 
 
April 2023
NewComentum

I see the Platonic Chiasmus on this fresco from Pompei. I think Mithras and Sol Apollo have nothing to see with earth, which is the work of Atlas. They carry the Platonic Universe. The Soul of the World (big) or the individual soul (small). ??

In Monumentum
 

Cautes des Bolards

This monument representing Cautes with uncrossed legs was consecrated by a certain Anttiocus.

 
 
April 2023
Syndexios

Martius Martialis

Pater who offered several monuments, including a temple, in Augusta Treverorum, now Trier.

 
 
April 2023
Monumentum

Altar with Phrygian cap of Trier

The altar with a Phrygian cap and a dagger from Trier was erected by a Pater called Martius Martialis.

 
April 2023
NewMonumentum

Cautes of Trier

This remarkable relief by Cautes was found in what appears to be a mithraeum in Trier.

 
April 2023
NewMonumentum

Mithraeum of Trier

The Trier Mithräum was found during work on the city's new fire station. The discovery included a Cautes limestone relief.

 
April 2023
NewNotitia

A new mithraeum discovered during excavation in Trier

A place of worship for the Roman god of light Mithras was discovered during archaeological excavations in Trier. This includes a larger relief.

 
April 2023
NewLiber

The Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity. Development, Decline and Demise ca. A.D. 270-430

In The Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity David Walsh explores how the cult of Mithras developed across the 3rd and 4th centuries A.D. and why by the early 5th century the cult had completely disappeared.

 
April 2023
Syndexios

Nonius Victor Olympus

Pater Patrum and Senator. He was also the patriarch of the Olympian dynasty, overseeing a Mithraic community in the centre of Rome.

 
 
April 2023
NewComentum

I think we were talking about two types of globes: you were mentioning the small spheres carried by certain figures, including Mithras himself, while I was thinking of these large globes that might represent the universe, often surrounded by two perpendicular circles. In any case, large or small, they are all labelled with the word globus: https://www.mithraeum.eu/quaere.php?tag=globus. Let me know if you find any monuments that are not marked, so I can add them.

In Monumentum
 

Cautes des Bolards

This monument representing Cautes with uncrossed legs was consecrated by a certain Anttiocus.