In his first book, Fahim Ennouhi sheds light on the cult of Mithras in Roman Africa. A marginal and elitist phenomenon, confined to restricted circles and largely absent from local religious dynamics, yet revealing.
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At Rome’s twilight, amid political upheaval and Christian ascendancy, Vettius Agorius Praetextatus embodied pagan intellect, virtue, and authority across senatorial, military, and mystical spheres.
By reading Orphic theology together with Eleusinian ritual practice, the mysteries emerge as a structured mystagogy of transformation:…
This article revisits the Mithraeum of S. Maria Capua Vetere, one of the most complete and artistically refined Mithraic sanctuaries in the Campanian region, situating it within its archaeological, iconographic, and ritual-historical contexts.
Restoring the Mysteries: A Conversation with Peter Mark Adams on his new book ‘Ritual & Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras’.
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Archaeologists at Doliche are now excavating houses around the vast Mithras temple to learn how people lived beside the sanctuary.
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The Mysteries of Mithras is an independent Initiatic Order which is inspired by and uses the allegory of the lost and ancient Mithraic Mysteries also known as Mithraism a previously influential Roman Cult of the same name.
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Over the last century or so, a great deal has been said about the god Mithras and his mysteries, which became known to the European world mainly through his Roman cultus during the Imperial Period.
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A place of worship for the Roman god of light Mithras was discovered during archaeological excavations in Trier. This includes a larger relief.
Las excavaciones llevadas a cabo en el yacimiento arqueológico romano de la villa de Mithra, en Cabra (Córdoba), han deparado el excepcional hallazgo de un mitreo, o zona destinada al culto al dios Mithra, cuya estatua fue descubierta hace unos 70 años.
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The Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere preserves frescoes depicting several scenes of the initiation rites.
The city of Hatra was famed for its fusion of several civilization cults, which several temples devoted to gods from all Indo-European world.
The Mithraeum of Santa Prisca houses remarkable frescoes showing the initiates in procession.
The Mithraea of Doliche, ancient Dülük, Turkey, are unique in that they represent two distinct shrines on the same site.
CIMRM 1020
Cippus from the Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte
Altar of Pisignano
Ceremonial sword of Riegel
Altar with inscription of Künzing
Tauroctony from Sisak
Altar by Aurelius Eutyches from Siscia
Cautopates of Sarmizegetusa with scorpion
Altar of Lucretius Mnester and Aemilius Philetus
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I think we were talking about two types of globes: you were mentioning the small spheres carried by certain figures…
Wouldn’t you be unveiling the secret doctrine?
on CIMRM 1743
what’s the inventar number?
Spent the day trying to find a better image of the tauroctony surround on the right in the case..…
on CIMRM 893
I know the Mithras site (since my childhood) at Carrawburgh and have worked at the APX Xanten…
I guess indeed Vermaseren was referring to what we call pine cones today.
Congratulations to the city hall of Lugo and all the team who participated in this unexpected…
on The Mithreaum of Lugo reveals the expansion of the Persian cult to the boundaries of Hispania
Thank you for the beautiful image and the information. I haven’t had the chance to visit it yet…
on CIMRM 618
Salve Ennio, The CIMRM is 1283. Unfortunately, I don’t know the inventory number wherever it is exposed…
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