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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.

 
 
December 2023
Scriptum

Thinking of forming a weekly group for those in the Anglosphere(USA, Canada, UK, Australia and NZ) to have a webcam call, discuss all things related to Mithras and form friends sharing a niche interest:)

 
Excellent idea, Matthew. Count on us!
 
December 2023
Syndexios

Kastos (father)

Together with his son, with whom he shares his name, Kastos has dedicated several monuments in Rome to the glory of Zeus Helios Mithras.

 
December 2023
Syndexios

Kastos (son)

Together with his father, Kastos dedicated several monuments in Rome to the glory of Zeus Helios Mithras.

 
December 2023
NewMonumentum

Cautes of the mitreo di Santa Prisca

The marble statue of Cautes, found in the Mithraeum of Santa Prisca, was originally a Mercury.

 
December 2023
Syndexios

Lucius Petreius Victor

Garlic merchant, probably from Lusitania, who dedicated an altar to Cautes in Tarraconensis.

 
December 2023
NewSocius

TV senior producer Presenter

 
December 2023
Syndexios

Euthices

Freedman, he offered a monument to Mithras for the well-being of his two former masters in Apulum.

 
December 2023
NewMonumentum

Mitreo della domus del capitello

Archaeologists discovered the 20th temple dedicated to Mithras in Ostia during the restoration of the domus del Capitello di stucco in 2022.

 
December 2023
NewSocius

Avid Archaeologist

 
November 2023
NewSocius

University Student and active member of the CAF living in the Greater Toronto area.

 
November 2023
Syndexios

Secundinus

Imperial slave and head of the customs statio of Esca in Noricum.

 
November 2023
NewComentum

Richard Gordon suggests the object on the Miles step is a bull’s hindquarter. “In the light of the sacrificial scene on the altar of Flavius Aper (Poetovio), the interpretation as a bull’s hind-quarter rather than shoulder is to be preferred. The scene at Ostia is perfectly in keeping with other evidence suggest- ing that (junior) Mithraic grades fulfilled specific manual tasks within the cult, in the case of Miles, butchery of sacrificial animals.” See: Gordon, R. 2013c. “The Miles-frame in the Mitreo di Felicissimo and the practicalities of sacrifice.” Religio: Revue Pro Religionistiku 21, no.1: 33–38.

In Monumentum
 

Mitreo di Felicissimo

The Mithraeum Felicissimus has a floor mosaic depicting the seven mithraic grades.

 
November 2023
NewSocius

Born in Nijmegen (Ulpia Noviomagus), now retired in Sintra, Portugal.

 
November 2023
NewSocius

A.B. Candidate in Departments of History and Classics at Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)

 
November 2023
NewLiber

The Mithraic Prophecy

Why did the Romans worship a Persian god? This book presents a new reading of the Mithraic iconography taking into account that the cult had a prophecy.

 
November 2023
NewLiber

Mithras – Miθra – Mitra

Der römische Gott Mithras aus der Perspektive der vergleichenden Religionsgeschichte.

 
November 2023
Syndexios

Aphrodisius Corneliorum

Aphrodisius, probably of Greek origin, must have been a slave of the Cornelii.

 
November 2023
Syndexios

Rufius Caeionius Sabinus

Senator and Pater Sacrorum of Mithras, who consecrated several monuments in Rome in the late 4th century.

 
November 2023
NewMonumentum

Altar of Rufius Caecinius Sabinus

In this 4th-century Roman altar, a certain Rufius Caecinius Sabinus defines himself as Pater of the sacred rites of the unconquered Mithras, having undergone the taurobolium.

 
November 2023
NewMonumentum

Tauroctony on intaglio

Large intaglio engraved with Mithras as bull slayer surrounded by a peculiar version of Cautes and Cautopates and other celestial deities.