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Monumentum

Head in Phrygian cap from Thasos

Marble head from the south-west walls of Thasos, Macedonia, found in 1920, with long curly hair, Phrygian cap, and a pathetic expression; possibly Mithras or Attis.

Monumentum

Multi-scene relief from Jassen

Fragment of a relief from Jassen, Moesia Superior, with three scenes: Mithras and kneeling Sol, the sacred repast, and Mithras ascending Sol's chariot; known from a personal communication.

Monumentum

Altar of Hermes from St. Thomas am Zeiselberg

Small altar preserved in the castle of Freudenberg at St. Thomas am Zeiselberg, Noricum, recording a dedication to Hermes invicto Mitrae — an unusual conflation of Hermes and the invincible Mithras.

Monumentum

Sol Invictus inscription from Thagaste

Inscription dedicated to Sol Invictus for the wellbeing of Emperor Aurelianus and his dynasty, from Thagaste, dated 275 A.D.

Monumentum

Dedication to Mithras from Colophon

Latin dedication to the invincible Mithras reportedly discovered north of ancient Colophon in Lydia.

Syndexios

Thrasyllus of Mendes

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

Monumentum

Casa del Mitreo

The name of this domus comes from the fact that some authors once associated one of its mosaics with the cult of Mithras, a connection that has since been dismissed.

Monumentum

Niasar Cave

The Niasar Cave, غار نیاسر, was a temple probably devoted to Iranian Mithras that dates back to the early Partian era.

Socius

Waraz-shapur Sassanid

Loyal soldier to lord mithra from Persian lands

Socius

Sebastian Buck

researcher on Mithraism for over 20 years, author of the book "Mithras. Geschichte einer Gottheit"

Socius

Marcus Cassius Julianus

Owner of www.mithraeum.org and the Mithras and Mithraeum discussion lists on Groups.io. Co-founder of Nova Roma and the founder of Byzantium Novum.

Monumentum

Mithraeum of Qasr Ibn Wardan

According to F. Cumont, the Bedouins told a legend from which Nöldeke concluded that the castle of Quasr-ibn-Wardân was a fort with a mithraeum.

Socius

pascal capus

Musée Saint-Raymond, musée d'Archéologie de Toulouse, associate curator of the exhibition Le mystère Mithra, plongée au cœur d'un culte romain.

Socius

Maarten Jozef Vermaseren

Dutch historian, born in 1918 and deceased in 1985. He was a specialist in the history of religions, especially the Eastern cults in the Roman Empire. A prolific writer, best known for his Corpus inscriptionum et monumentorum religionis Mithriacae.

Monumentum

Tauroctony from Aigio

The Tauroctony of Patras was found years before the temple over which the relief of Mithras sacrificing the bull was supposed to preside.

Monumentum

Marble base of Atilius Bassus from Ostia

Small marble base dedicated by C. Atilius Bassus, freedman and apparator of a priest of the Great Mother, to Silvanus dendrophoris, from the Mitreo degli Animali at Ostia.

Monumentum

Marble base of Annius Merops from Ostia

Small marble base dedicated by Sex. Annius Merops, honoured Dendrophoros, to the image of Terrae Matris, from the Mitreo degli Animali at Ostia, dated to 142 A.D.

Locus

Thagaste (Souk Ahras (سوق أهراس))

Thagaste was a Roman-Berber city in present-day Algeria, now called Souk Ahras.

Locus

Amasia (Amasya)

Amasya is a city in northern Turkey, in the Black Sea Region.

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