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  • Socius

    Antonio Moreno Rosa

    In the picture I am sitting on the wall next to the one where the sculpture of Mithras was found in Cabra, Spain.
  • Liber

    El culto de Mitra en Hispania (1981)

    La religión de la Hispania romana no ha sido un campo suficientemente trabajado. Al margen de algunos estudios aislados, que por numerosos que sean siempre resultarán escasos, tan sólo en una ocasión se han dado cita los especialistas para tratar de a…
  • Monumentum

    Plaque of Astorga

    This slab dedicated to the invincible god, Serapis and Isis by Claudius Zenobius was found in 1967 in the walls of the city of Astorga, Spain.

    TNMM734

    Invicto Deo / Serapidi et / Isidi / Cl(audius) Zenobius / Proc(urator) Aug(usti).
  • Liber

    The Mithraic Prophecy (2022)

    Why did the Romans worship a Persian god? This book presents a new reading of the Mithraic iconography taking into account that the cult had a prophecy.
  • Liber

    El fuego secreto de los filósofos. Una historia de la Imaginación (2006)

    «Es probable, dice Richard Tarnas, que nuestra cultura quiera no tanto avanzar cuanto volver a la antigua perspectiva, aunque con otra apariencia, e invertirse simétricamente una vez más: del hombre a Dios, de la independencia a la dependencia, de ést…
  • Liber

    Mithriaca II. The Mithraeum at Ponza (1974)

    Second volume of Vermaseren's series Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'Empire romain, Mithriaca, dedicated to a small Mithraic sanctuary on the island of Ponza in the Tyrrhenian Sea.
  • Video

    La creación del mito de Mitra | Jaime Alvar Ezquerra

    Jaime Alvar Ezquerra habla de 'La creación del mito de Mitra' en el tercer seminario online de Aglaya.
  • Socius

    Antonio Lopez

  • Monumentum

    The Acosolium of the Mysteries in the Hypogeum of Vibia

    The epigrahy includes a mention of Marcus Aurelius, a priest of the god Sol Mithras, who bestowed joy and pleasure on his students.

    TNMM602

    Dis pater Aeracura // Fata divina // Mercurius / nuntius // Vibia Alcestis // Abreptio Vibi(a)es(!) et discensio // Septe(m) pii sacerdotes // Vincentius // Bonorum iudicio iudicati // Vibia //s quoib…
  • Monumentum

    Altar of Benifayó

    This altar found in Benifaió, València, was erected by a slave called Lucanus.

    TNMM528 – CIMRM 807

    Invicto / Mithrae / Lucanus / Ser(vus).
  • Monumentum

    Altar by Hector Corneliorum of Mérida

    This fragmented altar was found in two pieces that Ana Osorio Calvo has recently brought together.

    TNMM586

    ... Invict[o Mithrae] / Hector Cornelior[um] / ex visu.
  • Monumentum

    Altar by Caius Aemilius Superaius of Merida

    Small white marble altar made in honour of Mithras found at San Albín, Mérida.

    TNMM426 – CIMRM 796

    Deo / Invicto / C(aius) Camilius / Superat(us) / a(nimo) l(ibens) p(osuit).
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Naples

    The marble relief of Mithras killing the bull in Naples bears an inscription that calls the solar god omnipotentis.

    TNMM464 – CIMRM 174, 175

    Omnipotenti Deo Mithrae Appius / Claudius Tarronius Dexter v(ir) c(larissimus) dicat.
  • Mithraeum

    Mithraeum of Naples

    The Mitreo della crypta neapolitana was used a des legends about its use, from a cult place devoted to Priapus to celebrate Aphrodite.

    TNMM219

  • Monumentum

    Altar of Merida consecrated by Marcus Valerius Secundus

    This altar is dedicated to the birth of Mithras by a frumentarius of the Legio VII Geminae.

    TNMM338 – CIMRM 793

    Ann(o) Col(oniae) CLXXX / aram genesis / Inuicti Mithrae / M(arcus) Val(erius) Secundus / fr(umentarius) Leg(ionis) VII Gem(inae) dono / ponendam merito curauit / G(aio) Accio Hedychro patre.
  • Mithraeum

    Mitreo de Cabra

    The Mithraeum of Cabra is located in the Villa del Mitra, which owes its name to the discovery in 1951 of a Mithras tauroctonus in the remains of the Roman villa.

    TNMM76

  • Monumentum

    Altar of Malaga

    This lost monument from Malaga, Spain, to Dominus Invictus has been linked to the cult of Mithras, although there is not enough evidence.

    TNMM732 – CIMRM 767

    L(ucius) Servilius Supera/tus Domino Invicto / donum libens ani/mo posuit / ara(m) merenti.
 
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