The Mystery of Mithras. Exploring the heart of a Roman cult
The exhibition The Mystery of Mithras: Exploring the Heart of a Roman Cult is being presented at the Musée royal de Mariemont from 20 November 2021 to 17 April 2022, then at the Musée Saint-Raymond de Toulouse from 14 May 2022 to 30 October 2022, and lastly at the Archäologisches Museum Frankfurt from 19 November 2022 to 15 April 2023.
The catalogue prepared for these different venues pursues three main objectives: proposing, thanks to the contributions of some 75 international experts, a new synthesis for a complex and fascinating cult that reflects the remarkable advances in our knowledge in recent decades; promoting by means of high-quality illustrations numerous monuments, both famous and unknown, that represent so many pieces of the giant Mithraic puzzle; lastly, to restore Mithras to his proper place in the religious landscape of yesterday and the European culture of today.
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Monuments
- Aion altar of Bordeaux
- Aion of Hedderneheim
- Altar from Gimmeldingen by Faustinus
- Altar of Libella, Budapest
- Altar of Senj made by the slave Hermes
- Altar of Vieu
- Altars of Sol and Luna from Mundelsheim
- Bronze plaque of Sisak
- Cantharus to Deo Invicto of Trier
- Cautes and Cautopates from Mithraeum III of Heddernheim
- Cultic mithraic vase of Zeughausstraße
- Dedication inscription from Koenigshoffen Mithraeum
- Feast scene with Mithras and Sol from Ladenburg
- Felsgeburt des Mithras
- Incensiary vessel of Dieburg
- Inscription of the praeses Aurelius Hermodorus
- Intaglio with Mithras and Kabiros
- Intaglio with Tauroctony from Munich
- Iron sword and crown of Güglingen
- Key of Mithraeum III at Nida
- Lion from Les Bolards
- Medallions with Mithras from Trapezus
- Mithraic exvoto of Dalmatia
- Mithraic vase of Lezoux
- Mithraic vase of Mühltal
- Mithras riding the bull
- Plaque with the list of worshippers of Virunum
- Raven from Stockstadt
- Relief of a round platter with food of Ladenburg
- Tauroctony from the Mithraeum III of Nida
- Tauroctony from Vermaseren's private collection
- Tauroctony medallion of Transylvania
- Tauroctony relief of Sarmizegetusa
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