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The New Mithraeum Database

Find news, articles, monuments, persons, books and videos related to the Cult of Mithras

Your search Alain Verse gave 112 results.

 
Monumentum

Altar of Sol of Via del Mare

This small altar found in Rome depicts the god Sol with five rays around his head.

 
Monumentum

Mithraic Sol of Piazza Dante

The relief of Sol was found during the construction of Piazza Dante in Rome in 1874.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctonia de Carnuntum (III ?)

Of this great relief of Mithras slaying the bull only a few segments remain.

 
Notitia

Porphyry’s Cave of Nymphs and the Cult of Mithras

Between the 1st and 4th centuries, Mithraism developed throughout the Roman world. Much material exists, but textual evidence is scarce. The only ancient work that fills this gap is Porphyry’s intense and complex essay.

 
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The Mithraeum, the temple of the mithraic brotherhood

A mithraeum – also known as a speleum, antrum or crypta – is an ideally underground and not excessively large building that represents the universe as a whole.

 
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.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 766

MMM II 409f No.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 720

White marble base of an altar (H. 0.92 Br. 0.70), kept in the Chapel of the castle on the hill.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 642

Fragment of a white marble relief (H. 0.40 Br. 0.36 -0.10 D. 0.037-0.06), found together with the following No.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 609

Marble base "von zwei Palmen ins Gevierte, wenig mehr als einen halben Palme dick".

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 565

In domo dominorum de Vellis iuxta moniales Carmelitas.

 
Textum

Mithra et Porphyre. Quand sculpture et philosophie se rejoignent

Interpreting the Bas-relief of Mithras Tauroctonos from Osterburken in the Light of Porphyry’s Treatise, The Cave of the Nymphs.

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