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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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Marcus Valerius Maximianus

Clarissimus knight and legate born in Poetovio that helped to disseminate the cult of Mithras in the African provinces.

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Mareinos

He is the painter of most of the frescoes in the mithraeum of Dura Europos.

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Adiectus

A slave of a certain Tiberius, he likely dedicated an altar to the invincible god Mithras in Carnuntum.

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Lucius Sextius Karus

His name was added to the main tauroctony sculpture of the Mitreo Fagan.

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Flavios Horimos

Freedman and administrator of the country estate of a certain Flavius Macedo in Moesia.

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Hermes

Slave of a certain Macus Iulius Eunicus, Hermes dedicated a monument to Silvanus found in the Mitreo della Planta Pedis.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 1017

A small limestone altar from Bandorf near Oberwinter dedicated to Deo Invicto Regi. Found in an isolated structure not resembling a mithraeum, its function remains uncertain.

 
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Proposal of a Mithraic ritual based on archaeological remains

Dominique Persoons proposes a reconstruction of Mithraic ritual based on archaeological remains, frescoes, and zodiacal symbolism. He interprets the mithraeum as a liturgical microcosm governing the descent, purification, and ascent of souls.

 
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The Eagles Depart

A historical novel framed as the memoir of a Brittano-Roman soldier witnessing the end of Roman Britain. It explores identity, loyalty, and survival at the twilight of empire.

 
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Mithra, ce dieu mystérieux

Maarten Vermaseren, qui a publié un corpus des inscriptions et des monuments de la religion mithriaque et un certain nombre d'études savantes sur le même sujet est certainement l'un des meilleurs spécialistes de la question.

 
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Tauroctony from Târgușor

This limestone relief of Mithras killing the bull bears an inscription by a certain Flavius Horimos, consecrated in a ’secret forest’ in Moesia.

 
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Two-sided relief of Dieburg

The relief of Dieburg shows Mithras riding a horse as main figure, surrounded by several scenes of the myth.

 
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CIMRM 723

Fragment of a double-sided white marble Mithraic relief from San Zeno, found near the Castello di Tuenno, depicting elements of the tauroctony cycle and bearing a dedication to Deo Invicto Mithrae.

 
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Tauroctony from Santa Prisca

Even if only a few fragments remain, it is very likely that the main niche of the Mitreo di Santa Prisca contained the usual representation of Mithras killing the bull.

 
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Inscription of Olympus to his grandfather

This monument is the only one still available from the disappeared Mithraeum in Piazza S. Silvestro in Capite.

 
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Tauroctony medallion of Egypt

This tauroctony may have come from Hermopolis and its style suggests a Thraco-Danubian origin.

 
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Plaque with the list of worshippers of Virunum

The bronze bears the dedication of a restoration of a Mithraeum carried out in 183.

 
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Trapezus

Trabzon is a historic city on the Black Sea coast of northeastern Turkey, founded in 756 BC as Trapezous by Greek colonists from Miletus. It passed from Achaemenid control to the Kingdom of Pontus, then became part of the Roman and Byzantine empires.

 
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Legion of Lust

A erotic military fantasy set against the dramatic background of Rome’s conquest of the British Isles.

 
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Le culte de Mithra en Afrique du Nord antique. Etude épigraphique et archéologique.

Cet ouvrage propose une étude d’ensemble du culte de Mithra en Afrique romaine. S’appuyant sur un rigoureux examen croisé des sources épigraphiques, archéologiques et littéraires, il restitue l’histoire et les spécificités de ce culte à mystères sur le sol africain…

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