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Olaf Kaper

Egyptologist with interest in the religion of Roman Egypt.

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Boris Dasselaar

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Rob Revet

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Menno van der Lijn

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Silvia de Wild

MA Classics & Ancient Civilizations, Teacher of Classics, Epigraphist

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Maarten Jozef Vermaseren

Dutch historian, born in 1918 and deceased in 1985. He was a specialist in the history of religions, especially the Eastern cults in the Roman Empire. A prolific writer, best known for his Corpus inscriptionum et monumentorum religionis Mithriacae.

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Tauroctony from Vermaseren's private collection

Maarten Vermaseren acquired this rosso antico marble of Mithras slaying the bull in 1961.