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The New Mithraeum Database

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

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Locus

Arelate (Arles)

The Romans took Arelate from the Ligurians in 123 BC and made it an important city by building a canal towards the Mediterranean. Present-day Arles has preserved many Roman buildings.

Monumentum

Mithras head of Arles

This head of Italian marble, found at Arles, probably belongs to a sculpure of Mithras.

Monumentum

Aion of Arles

The Aion of Arles includes nine signs of the zodiac in three groups of three, between the spirals of the serpent.

Monumentum

Lamp with human dismemberment scene from Arles

This lamp, depicting a man slicing his victim into pieces with a sword, was believed to be associated with the Cult of Mithras.

Socius

Charles Donahue

A.B. Candidate in Departments of History and Classics at Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)

Monumentum

Tauroctony in the British Museum

The sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull was transported from Rome to London by Charles Standish in 1815.

Liber

The Excavations at Dura-Europos. Preliminary Report of the Seventh and Eighth Seasons of Work, 1933–1934 and 1934–1935

Preliminary archaeological report on the seventh and eighth excavation seasons at Dura-Europos, including the first detailed publication of the Roman Mithraeum.

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