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The New Mithraeum Database

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

Your search Anne Le Cam gave 393 results.

 
Monumentum

Column of Callimorphus

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

 
Textum

Life of Alexander

In Plutarch’s Life of Alexander, the grieving Darius binds the eunuch Tireus by the light of Mithras to reveal the truth about his captive wife Statira, a solemn appeal that leads to unexpected praise for Alexander’s honor and restraint.

 
Monumentum

Base with inscription of Priscus Eucheta to Navarze

This inscription, which doesn’t mention Mithras, was found near the church of Santa Balbina on the Aventine in Rome.

 
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.

 
Textum

Discourse on the doctrines and practices of the magi

Dion Chrysostom, c. 100 A.D., a philosophical writer under the emperors Nerva and Trajan, composed a series of discourses or essays (λόγοι) on various subjects, in one of which he reports concerning the doctrines and practices of the magi.

 
Textum

Thebaid

The scholiast Lactantius Placidus comments on Statius’ passage identifying the Sun as Titan, Osiris, and Mithras, interpreting the Persian cave figure with the bull.

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Marcus Antonius Victorinus

A powerful and wealthy man, founder of a mithraeum in the city of Aquincum of which he was the mayor.

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Thrasyllus of Mendes

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

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Gaius Accius Hedychrus

Pater Patrum at Emerita Augusta

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Ulpius Silvanus

Soldier recruited in Arausio (Orange), emeritus of the Legion II Augusta.

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Flavius Gerontios

Pater nominos in Sidon, he consecrated a number of sculptures, including a Hecataion.

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Aurelian

Roman emperor of humble origin who reunited the Empire and repelled the pressure of barbarian invasions and internal revolts.

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Commodus

Roman emperor, son of the emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius.

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Marcus Aurelius Fronto

He and his brother, both of the Legio II Adiutrix, built a temple and erected several monuments in Budaors, Pannonia.

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Gaius Victorius Victorinus

Centurion of the Legio VII Gemina Antoniana Pia Felix who erected the only known mithraeum at Lucus Augusti to date.

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Veturius Dubitatus

Veteran and ex duplicarius of ala I civum Romanorum who dedicated an altar to Mithras in Teutoburgium.

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Titus Flavius Hyginus Ephebianus

Freedman who dedicated the first monument mentioning a Pater.

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Euthices

Freedman, he offered a relief of Mithras as a bull killer for the well-being of his two former masters in Apulum.

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Flavios Horimos

Freedman and administrator of the country estate of a certain Flavius Macedo in Moesia.

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