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The New Mithraeum Database

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Video

Le MYSTÉRIEUX culte de MITHRA

Nouveau video de Mysteria dédié au culte de Mithra à partir de l'exposition Le mystère de Mithra au Musée Saint Raymond.

 
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Notitia

Contra Celsum

229 A.D. The passage quoted is from the sixty-third book, ch. 10. Origen

 
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Orations

Orations 4, 39 and Carmen VII. Mid-late 4th century A.D.

 
Monumentum

Iron sword and crown of Güglingen

Several iron fragments found in the second mithraeum of Güglingen may have been used during mithraic ceremonies.

 
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The Crossed Bones and Lady Liberty

The Cilician pirates incorporated significant divine feminine elements, notably Anahita, into their Mithraic practices, profoundly influencing the initiation rites within the Roman Empire.

Socius

Stefan Taube

 
Monumentum

Raven from Stockstadt

The Stockstadt Raven is one of only two standing-alone sculptures of this bird to be found in Mithraic statuary.

 
Monumentum

Taurocotony from Calvi Risorta

Second terracotta tablet found at Calvi depicting Mithras killing the bull, now at Berlin, Antiquarium.

 
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Terra sigillata bowl depicting the Mithraic cult meal from Trier

This terra sigillata was found in 1926 in a grave on the Roman cemetery of St. Matthias, Trier. An eyelet indicates that it could have been hung on a wall.

 
Video

Mithras in Dacia with Csaba Szabó

Exploring religion, rituals, archaeological insights, and historical impact of the Cult of Mithras in the Danubian provinces.

 
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Mithras in Dacia with Csaba Szabó

Exploring religion, rituals, archaeological insights, and historical impact of the Cult of Mithras in the Danubian provinces.

 
Monumentum

Petrogeny with hand on head from Nida

This sculpture of Mithras being born from a rock is unique in the position of the hands, one on his head, the other on the rock.

 
Monumentum

Mithraic vase of Mühltal

The Mühltal Mithraic crater was discovered among the artefacts of a mithraeum found in Pfaffenhoffen am Inn, Bavaria.

 
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’.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony from the Mithräum von Heddernheim

This relief is so well-known that it has been reproduced in nearly every handbook of archaeology and of history of religions.

 
Notitia

Mithraism As Proud Boy Prototype: Underground Clubs of the Syndexioi and Pueri Superbi

Tracing the links between the cult of Mithras and the Proud Boys’ quest for identity, power, and belonging. How ancient rituals and brotherhood ideals resurface in radical modern movements.

 
Video

Jesus or Mithras? by Dr. Reza Assasi - ACSF 2023 - New York City

Mithraic Influence on Early Christian Symbolism and Church – Architecture

 
Video

Celestial Ascent in Myth and Cult

The Dream of Scipio, the Orphic Gold Plates, and the Mithra Liturgy are compared revealing a common cosmovision predicated on the microcosm.

 
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Two-sided relief from Rückingen

This remarkable double-sided relief depicts the myth of Mithras and the Tauroctony on one side, and a scene of Mithras the hunter and the banquet of Mithras and the Sol on the other.

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