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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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Tauroctony of Sarrebourg

The Tauroctony of Saarbourg (Sarrebourg, ancient Pons Sarravi), France, contains most of Mithras deeds known in a single relief.

 
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Fresco of a knight and a black figure from the Hawarte Mithraeum.

This painting depicts an Iranian knight holding in a chain a black naked figure with two heads.

 
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Mithraeum of Kapıkaya

Mithras became the main deity worshipped in the sanctuary of Meter in Kapikaya, Turkey, in Roman times, at least until the fourth century.

 
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Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte

The House of the Mithraeum of the Painted Walls was built in the second half of the 2nd century BC (opus incertum) and modified during the Augustan period.

 
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Mithraeum of Caesarea Maritima

This shrine developed towards the end of 2nd century and remained active until beginning 4th.

 
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Mithräum II von Bingen

A possible Mithraeum II was found in Bingen, but the few remains are not sufficient to prove it.

 
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Mithraeum of St. Egyden

The 'Mithraic cave' in the Gradische/Gradišče massif near St. Egidio contained vessels decorated with snakes and the remains of chicken bones and other animals that were consumed during Mithraic ceremonies.

 
Notitia

From Mithraism to Freemasonry. A history of ideas

Twelve centuries separate the decline of Roman Mithraism from the dawn of Freemasonry. Twelve centuries during which the mysteries of Mithras have remained more secret than ever.

 
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Carabinieri recover a Mithras Tauroctony about to be sold on the black market

The Mithriac votive sculpture comes from a clandestine excavation in the Tarquinia area. The criminal chain is active in archaeological areas of Rome and southern Etruria.

 
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Mithraeum of Carrawburgh

The temple of Mithras of Carrawburgh, Brocolita, disclosed three main stages of development, the second exhibiting two reconstructions.

 
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CIMRM 47

"Several heads were found of such a large scale that they must have belonged to fairly large paintings" (See fig. 12, IO) (Report, 104).

 
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CIMRM 159

At Volubilis not far from the fountain, in which the aquaduct of Fertassa emptied itself, two inscriptions dedicated to Mithras have been found.

 
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CIMRM 202

Two marble busts (H. 0.96), found at Formiae and obtained in 1902 by the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek at Copenhague (Inv. Nos 1905/6) from the Villa Borghese collection.

 
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CIMRM 263

The marble cap, mentioned by Visconti (p. 171), certainly belongs to the finds of Mitreo degli Animali (see No. 280).

 
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CIMRM 271

Of the Sacello delle tre Navate (Reg. III, Is. II, 2), which lies near the therms- building of the "Sette Sapienti", it cannot be said with certainty if it was a Mithraeum.

 
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CIMRM 288

The mosaic paved floor of the central aisle shows different figures: 1) On the threshold a large central arch formed by two pilasters; this main arch, from which hangs an oscillum is flanked by three minor arches on either side (seven spheres of the planets) (Becatti, PI. XIX)…

 
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CIMRM 292

Lower part of a statue (H. 0.37), which certainly stood on one of the bases at the beginnings of the podia.

 
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CIMRM 386

Wall-painting in the house of the Nummi Albani's family on the Quirinalis, Via Firenze near the Ministerio della Guerra.

 
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CIMRM 393

On the last column of the left bench, a standing person has been painted in red, pressing his l.

 
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CIMRM 484

On the under layer remnants of other painted persons are visible.

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