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Interview avec Fahim Ennouhi à l’occasion de la publication de son premier livre, Le culte de Mithra en Afrique du Nord antique, consacré à cette présence restée élitiste et marginale dans cette région de l’Empire.
Acclaimed esoteric scholar @peter.mark.adams talks about his latest book, ‘Ritual and Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras’, interviewed by professor, writer and host of The New Mithraeum podcast @andreu.abuin.
Tracing the links between the cult of Mithras and the Proud Boys’ quest for identity, power, and belonging. How ancient rituals and brotherhood ideals resurface in radical modern movements.
The Mithraeum of Els Munts, near Tarragona, is one of the largest known to date.
This inscription by a certain Aphrodisius was found under the old city hall of Algiers.
In this article, Chalupa examines the scant evidence that has been found for the presence of women in the Roman cult of Mithras.
The monument was dedicated by two brothers, one of them being the Pater of his community.
The iconography of the platter of Ladenburg might evoke the food consumed during Mithraic banquets.
Peter Mark Adams: ‘The initiation was a frightening experience that caused some people to panic as a flood of otherworldly entities swept through the ritual space.’
Our modern understanding of Mithraism, though, depends largely on a few short (and very problematic) literary mentions, mostly written by the cult’s Christian rivals.
According to AA 1900, 63 a mosaic with lion and panther was found near an old Punian cemetery at Duimes.
In the upper layer of the "tophet" at Carthago, under which a very old sanctuary was situated, a small Mithras-relief was found by Cintas in 1949 (Br. 0.50).
Giacomo Caputo writes us about an inscription, discovered at the Roman Fort of Bu-Ngem by the British School at Rome.
Small marble head probably of Mithras tauroctonus from Leptis Magna, now Khoms.
Statue of a standing person in eastern attire in red, local limestone with inscription.
The lion-headed figure from Rusicade, now Skikda, holds a key in both hands and features a pine cone beside his feet.
Inscription recording the dedication of a mithraeum at Tiddis by a group of cultores who built the sanctuary at their own expense.
