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The New Mithraeum Database

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Notitia

Life around the world’s largest Mithras temple revealed at Doliche

Archaeologists at Doliche are now excavating houses around the vast Mithras temple to learn how people lived beside the sanctuary.

 
Textum

Against the errors of the profane religions

Mithras the Cattle-Rustler: The Persian Cult of Fire as Divided into Sexed Powers and the Hidden Cave Rites of the Magi.

 
Monumentum

Intaglio of Abraxas and Mithras

Gnostic amulet found in the ancient Agora of Athens, depicting Abraxas on one side and a Mithraic inscription on the other.

 
Textum

Life of Alexander

In Plutarch’s Life of Alexander, the grieving Darius binds the eunuch Tireus by the light of Mithras to reveal the truth about his captive wife Statira, a solemn appeal that leads to unexpected praise for Alexander’s honor and restraint.

 
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Life of Pompey

Passage from Plutarch’s Life of Pompey, recounting the rise, power, and insolence of the Cilician pirates before Pompey’s campaign to suppress them.

 
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Base with inscription of Priscus Eucheta to Navarze

This inscription, which doesn’t mention Mithras, was found near the church of Santa Balbina on the Aventine in Rome.

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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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Adams on Mithras

Restoring the Mysteries: A Conversation with Peter Mark Adams on his new book ‘Ritual & Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras’.

 
Video

Le culte de Mithra [3D] - Les Nocturnes du Plan de Rome - 06 nov. 2019

Le culte de Mithra : Une religion iranienne qui se répand à Rome et dans son empire.

 
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De Iside et Osiride

Of Isis and Osiris or Of the Ancient Religion and Philosophy of Egypt, Plutarch, The Moralia.

 
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Réfutation des sectes

Deux extraits rapportés par Eznik de Goghp, Ve siècle, sur la création du Soleil selon les mythologies des mages.

 
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Discourse on the doctrines and practices of the magi

Dion Chrysostom, c. 100 A.D., a philosophical writer under the emperors Nerva and Trajan, composed a series of discourses or essays (λόγοι) on various subjects, in one of which he reports concerning the doctrines and practices of the magi.

 
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Nonnus Abbas on Gregory of Nazianzus

Commentaries by Pseudo-Nonnus, also known as Nonnus the Abbot, on Gregory Nazianzen’s In Julianum Imperatorem Invectivae Duae and In Sancta Lumina.

 
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Thebaid

The scholiast Lactantius Placidus comments on Statius’ passage identifying the Sun as Titan, Osiris, and Mithras, interpreting the Persian cave figure with the bull.

 
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Quaestiones veteris et novi testamenti

Questions on the old and new testaments, 113.11. Ambrosiaster, 5th cent.

 
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De fluviis

Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis. Goodwin, Ed. Plutarch. Plutarch’s Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press of John Wilson and son.

 
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De fluviis

Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis. Goodwin, Ed. Plutarch. Plutarch’s Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press of John Wilson and son.

 
Monumentum

Mithraeum of Crimea

The site of Ay-Todor in Crimea revealed a Roman camp, a temple with votive offerings, and a Mithraeum.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Fleischmann Collection

This relief of Mithras killing the bull includes an unusual owl at the feet of Cautopates and a cock next to Cautes.

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