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Clarissimus knight and legate born in Poetovio that helped to disseminate the cult of Mithras in the African provinces.
Servus of a certain Primus, Prudentus offered a sculpture of Mithras rock-birth in Poetovio.
Procurator of the emperor, Porcius Verus erected a relief of Mithras found in Ruše, Slovenia..
Dux of Pannonia Prima et Noricum Ripense, he built a mithraeum in Poetovio.
Marble votive altar with inscription to Mithras, featuring coiled, fan-like motifs above the text and associated with the statio Enensis.
Hyacinthus, like Hermadio, seems to have been one of the profets of Mithraism in the Dacian region.
The article examines two recently discovered Mithraic representations of Cautes from Alba Iulia, focusing on a rare iconographic type showing the torchbearer with a bucranium.
Scrutator of the customs of the Poetovio station, Theodorus erected an altar to Mithras following a vision.
Memoir by Félix Lajard analysing a Mithraic bas-relief discovered in Vienne in 1830. Based on direct examination of the fragments and their context, the study corrects an earlier misidentification and documents a rare lion-headed figure within a probable mithraeum…
In polemical passages from the late second and early third centuries, Tertullian portrays the cult of Mithras as a demonic imitation of Christian rites and provides rare early references to Mithraic initiation and ritual symbolism.
A collection of passages on Mithras from Greek and Latin literary sources.
An anonymous late-antique Christian poem, traditionally attributed to Pseudo-Paulinus of Nola (Poema 32, vv. 109–111), that ridicules pagan cults and presents Mithras, Isis, and Serapis as gods of concealment, contradiction, and unstable forms rather than light…
Late antique legendary biography of Alexander the Great (c. AD 300), where history, myth, and imperial ideology merge around figures of divine kingship and solar power.
Mithras, also called Mitra or Mithra depending on the historical period, region or language, is one of the oldest known Indo-European gods.
In the eighteenth year of Diocletian’s reign, Galerius Maximianus, persuaded by the sorcerer Theoteknos, consulted demonic oracles in a cave and was urged to initiate the persecution of the Christians.
Radcliffe G. Edmonds III analyses the absence of the moon in the Mithras Liturgy. He argues that this absence reflects a deliberate cosmological framework in which lunar powers linked to genesis are excluded from the ritual of ascent.
This collective volume explores the ways ancient peoples interacted with divine powers through prayer, magic, and the interpretation of the stars. Drawing on evidence from Mesopotamia to Late Antiquity, it situates these practices within broader religious and cosmological systems…
