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The New Mithraeum Database

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Lucius Septimius Cassianus

Ensign-bearer of legion VI Hispana active in Aquileia.

Video

Celestial Ascent in Myth and Cult

The Dream of Scipio, the Orphic Gold Plates, and the Mithra Liturgy are compared revealing a common cosmovision predicated on the microcosm.

Textum

If So, How? Representing “Coming Back to Life” in the Mysteries of Mithras

Porphyry states that the Mithraists “perfect their initiate by inducting him into a mystery of the descent of souls and their exit back out again, calling the place a ‘cave’.”.

Monumentum

Two Mithras-Attis terracotta from Kerch

Terracotta tablets depicting a Taurombolium by Attis which might be at the origins of the mithraic Tauroctony iconography.

Monumentum

Base of statue from Mérida

This lost monument bears an inscription to Cautes by a certain Tiberius Claudius Artemidorus.

Monumentum

Cautopates from Casa del Mitreo of Mérida

The sculpture of the solar god is signed by its author, Demetrios.

Monumentum

Mithras sacrificing the bull at Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Tauroctony in black marble on display at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California.

Video

Tales from English Folklore #3: The Cult of Mithras

On Hadrian's Wall lies the ruin of a subterranean temple to a little-known god, at the centre of a secretive Roman cult.

Video

The Literary Holy Grail of Mithraic Studies, East and West: The Parthian Epic of Samak-e ʿAyyar

Prof. Parvaneh Pourshariati; 9th European Conference of Iranian Studies, Free University of Berlin, September 2019.

Monumentum

Mithras killing the Bull from L'Origine de tous les cultes

Engraving with cosmological and symbolic mithraic elements.

Monumentum

Mithras Tauroctony and other figures from Palæographia Britannica

Palæographia Britannica: or, discourses on antiquities that relate to the history of Britain. Number III.

Monumentum

Mithras tauroctonus and taurophorus vessel from Lanuvium

The red ceramic vessel from Lanuvium shows Mithra carrying the bull, followed by the dog, and the Tauroctony on the opposite side.

Video

Mithras Aquincumban – virtuális bemutató I. rész

Video report in Hungarian by the Aquincum Museum on the Mithraic discoveries in the region.

Video

Explore the Mithras Temple of Jajce (Jace i Mitras)

Video reportage about the city and the Mithraeum of Jajce.

Video

Reconstructing the Roman Mystery Religion of Mithras

Our modern understanding of Mithraism, though, depends largely on a few short (and very problematic) literary mentions, mostly written by the cult’s Christian rivals.

Notitia

Porphyry’s Cave of Nymphs and the Cult of Mithras

Between the 1st and 4th centuries, Mithraism developed throughout the Roman world. Much material exists, but textual evidence is scarce. The only ancient work that fills this gap is Porphyry’s intense and complex essay.

Socius

Theodore Papadopoulos

Prophet of Mithras | Glory to the Father of our Fathers

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