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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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Monumentum

Mitreo de Carminiello ai Mannesi

The Mithraeum of Carminiello ai Mannesi was installed in two rooms of a 1st century BC domus.

Video

Mitreo di Marino

Interview to one of the workers who participated in the discovery of the temple of Mithras of Marino, Rome.

Monumentum

Mithraeum of Heviz

The Mithraeum has found in a Roman building at the end of Attila Road, in Hévíz, Egregy

Monumentum

Mithraeum of Scarbantia

Emperor Julian is supposed to have presided over a human sacrifice in the Mithraeum of Scarbantia, according to N. Massalsky.

Textum

El primer testimonio mitraico

The article reveals the context in which the first public appearance of Mitra happened to answer two questions: who were the first people to give prominence to this deity, and for what purpose they did so.

Pagina

The Mithraeum

The mithraeum was the sacred space where the Mithraic brotherhood gathered for ritual, initiation, and communal meals.

Notitia

The Mithreaum of Lugo reveals the expansion of the Persian cult to the boundaries of Hispania

The museum that houses the temple of Mithras has become the most visited Roman space in the city since it opened.

Monumentum

Tauroctony from Zadar

The relief of Mithras killing the bull of Zadar includes a naked Sol in a quadriga.

Notitia

The gay origins of the Hindi world for friend

The Sanskrit and Hindi word for friend is “Mitra”. It is also the Nepali word for it. The Sinhala word is ‘mitura’. The word’s etymology has surprising, stark and vivid homosexual connotations.

Notitia

Ritualized Body and Ritualized Identity

Recontextualizing the Initiation rituals of the Roman Mystery Cult of Mithras.

Notitia

Newly-found petroglyph in western Iran may have link to Mithraism

Some Iranian archaeologists suggest that the carving was created by a follower of Mithraism as it depicts a simple portrayal of a human with his right hand raised and an object in his hand. But, experts say it needs much more study in order to date the pe

Notitia

Mithra, Mihr, and Zarathushtra

How a rock relief in western Iran, carved during the time of the Sasanian Persian Empire (AD 224-651), has been re-imagined over the centuries.

Monumentum

Tauroctony from Bologna

The relief of Mithras killing the bull of Bologna depicts several scenes of the mithraic myth.

Monumentum

Tauroctony from York

This stone in basso relief of Mithras killing the bull was found 10 foot underground in Micklegate York in 1747.

Locus

Biljanovac

Ancient site in Moesia Superior, north-east of Kumanovo, where the remains of a Mithraic sanctuary were discovered together with several marble reliefs, altars and cult objects.

Regio

Germania

Germania preserves some of the densest concentrations of Mithraic evidence in the Roman frontier provinces.

Video

La Légende de Mithra

This short animation traces one of the interpretations of the Mithras legend based on archaeological research.

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