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The New Mithraeum Database

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I am honored to present my first book devoted to the cult of Mithras in ancient North Africa. Structured into four main sections, it also features a catalogue of twenty inscriptions and twenty-six illustrative plates…

Notitia

Mithras in Africa

In his first book, Fahim Ennouhi sheds light on the cult of Mithras in Roman Africa. A marginal and elitist phenomenon, confined to restricted circles and largely absent from local religious dynamics, yet revealing.

Monumentum

Mithraeum of Cirta

An inscription mentioning a speleum decorated by Publilius Ceionius suggests the location of a mithraeum in Cirta, the capital of Numidia.

Monumentum

Column of Callimorphus

Callimorphus dedicated this image of the sun god to the invincible sun ’Mythra’.

Notitia

Life around the world’s largest Mithras temple revealed at Doliche

Archaeologists at Doliche are now excavating houses around the vast Mithras temple to learn how people lived beside the sanctuary.

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Against the errors of the profane religions

Mithras the Cattle-Rustler: The Persian Cult of Fire as Divided into Sexed Powers and the Hidden Cave Rites of the Magi.

Monumentum

Mithräum von Saalburg

In the 1900s a model Mithraeum was built in Saalburg in the mistaken belief that there was an original temple of Mithras in an ancient Roman building.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Şehitkamil (Gaziantep)

New evidence for the cult of Mithras and the religious practices of Legio IV Scythica at the Roman frontier city of Zeugma on the Euphrates.

Video

Adams on Mithras

Conversation with Peter Mark Adams on the occasion of the release of Ritual & Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras, by Theion Publishing.

Notitia

Adams on Mithras

Restoring the Mysteries: A Conversation with Peter Mark Adams on his new book ‘Ritual & Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras’.

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Adrien Hamouti

Student in archeology and ancient history

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Aelius Maximus

Aelius Maximus identifies himself as a soldier of the Legio V Macedonica on a relief found in ancient Potaissa.

Syndexios

Thrasyllus of Mendes

Thrasyllus was an Egyptian of Greek descent grammarian, astrologer and a friend of the Roman emperor Tiberius.

Syndexios

Gaius Accius Hedychrus

Pater Patrum at Emerita Augusta

Syndexios

Marcus Valerius Secundus

Centurio frumentarius probably from Tarraco, who served in the Legio VII Gemina located in Emerita Agusta.

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