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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
NewLiber

Il Mitreo del Circo Massimo. Studio preliminare di un monumento inedito tra archeologia, conservazione e fruizione

This volume collects the first results of the extensive and articulated research project dedicated to the Mithraeum of the Circus Maximus, the result of the Research Agreement stipulated in 2016 between the Capitoline Superintendence and the University...

 
May 2023
NewLiber

Archäologie des Mithraskultes. Architektur und Kultpraxis am Beispiel der Tempel von Güglingen, Kreis Heilbronn

The present volume reconstructs the history of the mithraea of Güglingen. In addition, rich finds provide insight into hitherto unknown areas of the liturgical practice of the cult of Mithras.

 
May 2023
Syndexios

Claudius Arennius Reatinus

Pater from Nersae, Italia, known by an inscription of his mithraic Apronianus.

 
 
May 2023
NewMonumentum

Inscription of Apronianus to the res publica of the Aequiculi

This inscription to Mithras Invencible was dedicated by a certain Apronianus in 172.

 
May 2023
Syndexios

Apronianus

Public treasurer known for several inscriptions to Mithras found in San Silvertro.

 
May 2023
NewCohors

Leonteum

Accipe thuricremos pater accipe sancte Leones per quos thuradamus per quos consumimur ipsi.

 
May 2023
NewLiber

Corpus Hermeticum

The links between Egypt and Greece are strong and far-reaching, and although the zoomorphic gods frightened Herodotus, the fact remains that the two cultures continued to influence each other.

 
May 2023
NewComentum

Interesting how even though we may confuse certain gods for ages, they remain somehow unique.

In Notitia
 

Mithra, Mihr, and Zarathushtra

The fourth in a series of weekly instalments featuring insights from the authors of Images of Mithra, published in March 2017, explores how a rock relief in western Iran, carved during the time of the Sa

 
 
May 2023
NewPublication

old and unique picture of Sarrebourg altar destroyed by Christian...

 
May 2023
NewComentum

Dear Csaba , I am fascinated by your slab of Mithras with Cautes wearing a child in front of the bull. I would like to have a higher definition picture because this picture opens many questions !! Could you send me one ? Regards pers00ns@aol.com Dominicus ( small Dominus = house chief)

In Notitia
 

Mapping Roman sanctuaries

The Digital Atlas of Roman Sanctuaries in the Danubian Provinces (DAS) is the first comprehensive and open access representation of sacralised spaces in the area.

 
 
May 2023
NewPublication

For those who don't already know, check out our friend @pattie.lawler's group on Facebook. There is lots of interesting information and it is always up to date with the latest discoveries and events.

Vinculum

 
May 2023
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Santo Stefano Rotondo

The relief of Mithras killing the bull of Stefano Rotodon preserves part of his polycromy and depicts two unusual figures: Hesperus and an owl.

 
May 2023
NewMonumentum

Tauroctony relief from Fleischmann Collection

This relief of Mithras killing the bull includes an unusual owl at the feet of Cautopates and a cock next to Cautes.

 
May 2023
Syndexios

Gaius Victorius Victorinus

Centurion of the Legio VII Gemina Antoniana Pia Felix who erected the only known mithraeum at Lucus Augusti to date.

 
 
May 2023
NewLiber

El dios Mitra. Los orígenes de su culto anterior al mitraísmo romano

En este libro se presenta un trabajo de investigación que contiene un considerable volumen de información disponible sobre el Dios Mitra que permite componer una imagen, lo más completa posible, sobre los elementos que intervinieron en el proceso de...

 
May 2023
NewVideo

La Légende de Mithra

This short animation traces one of the interpretations of the Mithras legend based on archaeological research.

 
May 2023
Monumentum

Roman Marble Relief Panel with Birth of Mithras

Mithras emerging from the rock with torch and dagger beside a reclining Oceanus or Saturn.

 
May 2023
NewComentum

glad you enjoyed. it's just a draft by now. Cheers

In Cohors
 

Nymphæum

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Mithras.

 
May 2023
NewNotitia

The Father of Mithras

It is well known that Mithras was born from a rock. However, less has been written about the father of the solar god, and especially about how he conceived him.