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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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The Golden Chain of Initiation: Orphism, Eleusis, and Mystagogy—A Reinterpretation

By reading Orphic theology together with Eleusinian ritual practice, the mysteries emerge as a structured mystagogy of transformation: a disciplined passage from forgetfulness (Lethe) to knowledge (aletheia), from mortality to participation in the divine.

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The Mithraic Origin and Meanings of the Rotas-Sator Square

Moeller interprets the square as a Mithraic construction encoding cosmological, numerical, and theological structures of Roman mystery religion, rather than an early Christian cryptogram.

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Tauroctony from Dormagen

The sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull found in Dormagen is exposed at Bonn Landesmuseum.

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Two-sided relief of Dieburg

The relief of Dieburg shows Mithras riding a horse as main figure, surrounded by several scenes of the myth.

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Flavius Aper altar (CIMRM 1584)

The altar of Ptuj depicts Mithras and Sol on the front and the water miracle on the right side.

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Marble tauroctony relief in the Froehner Collection

White marble relief depicting Mithras as bull-slayer in a grotto from the Froehner collection, now in the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris.

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Petrogenesis statue from Schachadorf

Conglomerate statue of the birth of Mithras, found in a burnt layer, showing the god nude emerging from the rock with raised hands and a snake.

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Petrogenesis statue acquired in Rome

Mithras being born from the rock (petrogenia), acquired in Rome and formerly kept in Berlin.

Textum

Alexander Romance

Late antique legendary biography of Alexander the Great (c. AD 300), where history, myth, and imperial ideology merge around figures of divine kingship and solar power.

Liber

Rencontre de l'Orient et de l'Occident : les colosses de Nemrut Dagi

Magazine Jardin des arts. Numéro spécial consacré aux colosses de Nemrut Dagi.

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Antaios : Mysteria Mithrae

Antaios, numéro dédié au culte de Mithra avec des articles, entrevues, poèmes et d'autres textes.

Socius

Joseph Filardo

Commercial translator, freemason, edito of the blog bibliot3ca.com

Monumentum

Aion of Villa Albani

White marble statue of Lion-head god of time, formerly in the Villa Albani, nowadays in the Musei Vaticani.

Syndexios

Sextus Vervicius Eutyches

Textile merchant from Augusta Treverorum and Pater of his community, he left testimony of his cult to Mithras in the 3rd century.

Syndexios

Aulus Ibliomarius Placidus

Butcher who dedicated a statue of Mercurius Quillenius in the Mithraeum of Groß-Gerau.

Socius

Shahin Ariaey-Nejad

I am Iranian American who is interested in learning more about the Mithraums in Europe

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Inscription from the ascent to the Capitoline Hill

Reperta in ascensu Capitolii.

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Raven from Stockstadt

The Stockstadt Raven is one of only two standing-alone sculptures of this bird to be found in Mithraic statuary.

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Cautes with bull head of Sarmizegetusa

This sculpture of Cautes holding a bull’s head was found in 1882 in Sarmizegetusa, Romania.

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Tauroctony from Osterburken

Franz Cumont considers the bas relief of Osterburken ’the most remarkable of all the monuments of the cult of Mithras found up to now’.

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