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Stele representing Apollo-Mithras-Helios in a Hellenistic nude fashion, shaking hands with Antiochus I.

This syncretic amulet depicting Abraxas and the word MIΘPAZ was once displayed in the Cappello Museum of Venice.

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I have listed all the novels about Mithras and Mithraism that I know of. Do you know any others? Crypto-Mithraic would also work!

Did Apuleius explain his very own initiation into the Mysteries of Mithras in The Golden Ass? Apuleius' The Golden Ass is one of the most famous and entertaining novels of antiquity. Among his adventures, Lucius is initiated into the mysteries of Isis…

The archaeology of the Rudchester Mithraeum

Découvrez les coulisses de la réalisation et du montage de l’exposition « Le mystère Mithra. Plongée au cœur d’un culte romain ».

The Mithras of Cabra is the only full preserved Tauroctony sculpture found in Spain yet.

The Mithraeum of Koenigsbrunn is the only one preserved in the ancient Roman province of Rhaetia, current Bavaria.

Mithraeum II was found at Ptuj at a distance of 20 m south of the Mithraeum I in 1901.

Part of the finds from the fifth Mithraeum of Ptuj is kept in the Hotel Mitra in the modern city.

Antiochus I of Commagene shakes Mithras hands in this relief from the Nemrut Dagi temple.

Mithras Tauroctony on bronze exposed at the Metropolitan Museum of New York.

Des rituels mystérieux, une hiérarchie gradée au sein d’un culte énigmatique, une société considérée pendant longtemps comme secrète au sein de l’Empire Romain…

This monument dedicated to 'Invicto Patrio' was found in Milan in 1869.