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The New Mithraeum Database

Find news, articles, monuments, persons, books and videos related to the Cult of Mithras

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Socius

reşit solmaz

I was born in 1975 in Gaziantep. I graduated from the Department of Public Administration in 2005. In 2009, I started working at the Municipality of Şehitkamil

 
Monumentum

Column of Callimorphus

Callimorphus dedicated this image of the sun god to the invincible sun ’Mythra’.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Şehitkamil (Gaziantep)

New evidence for the cult of Mithras and the religious practices of Legio IV Scythica at the Roman frontier city of Zeugma on the Euphrates.

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Sercan Sarıkaya

Biologist. WS: Health,Food

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Dilek Durur

 
Monumentum

Tablet of Antiochus I from Samsat

"The remaining figure on this monument, Herakles, was previously misidentified as Apollo on this remarkable black basalt tablet from Samsat, known in Roman times as Samosata.

 
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Head of Antiochus I of Commagene

This monumental head of Antionchus I of Commagene is in Nemrut Dağı together with other representations of the Greco-Iranian king.

 
Monumentum

Mithraic inscription from Anazarba

This dedicatory inscription by Aurelius Seleucus, found in Cilicia, aligns with Plutarch’s account of Cilician pirates performing foreign sacrifices and secret rites of Mithras.

 
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Mithraic relief of Baris

The Mithraic relief from Baris, in present-day Turkey, shows what appears to be a proto-version of the Tauroctony, with a winged Mithras surrounded by two Victories.

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VOLKAN ÖZLEK

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Emre Uysal

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kamer incedursun

academic researcher and documentarist

 
Monumentum

Mithra’s statue in Boztepe Hill

This eulogy of Saint Eugene of Trapezos tells how, in the time of Diocletian, he and two other Christian fellows destroyed a statue of Mithras.

 
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Medallions with Mithras from Trapezus

These bronze medallions associates the image of several Roman emperors with that of Mithras, usually as a rider, in the province Pontus.

 
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Votive plaque from Ballıhisar

This votive silver plaque depicting Mithras was found at the site of Pessinus, Ballıhisar, in Turkey.

 
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Head of Mithras at Nemrud Dag

The colossal head has been identified as a solar god, Apollo-Mihr-Mithras-Helios-Hermes.

 
Monumentum

Mount Nemrut Dağı

Mount Nemrut or Nemrud is one of the highest peaks in the eastern Taurus Mountains, southeastern Turkey. On its summit large statues stand around what is supposed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BC.

 
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Mithraea of Dülük

The Mithraea of Doliche, ancient Dülük, Turkey, are unique in that they represent two distinct shrines on the same site.

 
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Mithraeum of Zerzevan

A Mithraeum was discovered in 2007, during the excavations at the Zerzevan Castle.

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