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The New Mithraeum Database

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Your search Boulogne-sur-mer (Pas-de-Calais) gave 640 results.

 
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Before MAGA: Mithras, Phrygian Caps, and the Politics of Headwear

Despite the current political landscape of the US, we can look to antiquity to see that the red cap was actually once a symbol of citizenship and welcome to the foreigner.

 
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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.

 
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Ritualized Body and Ritualized Identity

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

 
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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.

 
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Carabinieri recover a Mithras Tauroctony about to be sold on the black market

The Mithriac votive sculpture comes from a clandestine excavation in the Tarquinia area. The criminal chain is active in archaeological areas of Rome and southern Etruria.

 
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Mithréum de Lucciana, Corsica

For the first time, a Mithraeum has been discovered in Corsica, at the site of Mariana, Lucciana (Haute-Corse).

 
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Tauroctony of Bologna

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

 
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CIMRM 32

Inscription carved on the pairs of columns on the backs of the five thrones, which stand on the west and east part of the terrace.

 
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CIMRM 116

Giacomo Caputo writes us about an inscription, discovered at the Roman Fort of Bu-Ngem by the British School at Rome.

 
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CIMRM 173

Greyish marble relief (H. 0.84 Br. 0.99 D. 0.07), probably from Naples.

 
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CIMRM 206

Inscription from Antium, found at San Donato in 1884.

 
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CIMRM 253

Little building near K.

 
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CIMRM 286

Parva basis marmorea.

 
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CIMRM 288

The mosaic paved floor of the central aisle shows different figures: 1) On the threshold a large central arch formed by two pilasters; this main arch, from which hangs an oscillum is flanked by three minor arches on either side (seven spheres of the planets) (Becatti, PI. XIX)…

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 346

In the room left to the entrance of the Mithraeum, there is a well, from which water runs through a pipe, which penetrates the wall and empties in a square basin.

 
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CIMRM 372

Marble relief (H. 0.43 Br. 0.85 D. 0.065), of which the left lower corner is missing.

 
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CIMRM 378

Marble altar, found near S.

 
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CIMRM 384

Lanciani, Storia Scavi, III, 200 gives another interesting note about a second Mithraeum, discovered in 1869 near the previous sanctuary in Muti's gardens.

 
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CIMRM 404

CIL VI 752; MMM II No.

 
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CIMRM 405

CIL VI 753; MMM II No.

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