The New Mithraeum Database

Ce 4e fascicule de Mithriaca concerne un très curieux monument exhumé au XVIe siècle sur le site d'un Mithraeum qu'on localise tout près de l'église S. Maria in Domnica, non loin de S. Stefano Rotondo où un autre spelaeum fut mis au jour en 1973…

This magnificently illustrated publication renews the Mithraic dossier on the basis of concrete data, with caution and penetration. Marino's discovery is disconcerting and rekindles the controversy about the order in which bands should be read.

Second volume of Vermaseren's series Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'Empire romain, Mithriaca, dedicated to a small Mithraic sanctuary on the island of Ponza in the Tyrrhenian Sea.

Peter Kingsley interpreta el poema de Parménides a la luz de inscripciones del sur de Italia y lo sitúa en un trasfondo religioso ligado a los ritos de incubación y a los sacerdotes de Apolo.

David Ulansey argues that Mithraic iconography was actually an astronomical code, and that the cult began as a religious response to a startling scientific discovery.

Robert Turcan highlights various examples of the philosophical interpretation, mainly Platonic, of the figure and cult of Mithras.

Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae (or CIMRM) is a two volume collection of inscriptions and monuments relating primarily to the Mithraic Mysteries.

Illmitz is a market town in the district of Neusiedl am See in Burgenland in Austria.

The Roman settlement overlooked a passage between the Hodna and the Sahara via the Aïn Rich plain and the valley of the Oued Chaïr, between the Ouled-Naïl and Zab mountains.

Elefsina or Eleusis is a suburban city and municipality in Athens metropolitan area.

Dalj is a village on the Danube in eastern Croatia, near the confluence of the Drava and Danube, on the border with Serbia.

Isca, variously specified as Isca Augusta or Isca Silurum, was the site of a Roman legionary fortress and settlement or vicus, the remains of which lie beneath parts of the present-day suburban town of Caerleon, Walles.

Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great in April 331 BC as one of his many city foundations. After he captured the Egyptian Satrapy from the Persians, Alexander wanted to build a large Greek city on Egypt’s coast that would bear his name.

Storgosia was a Roman road station and later a fortress, located in the modern Kaylaka Park in the vicinity of modern Pleven (North-central Bulgaria). Pleven is today the seventh most populous city in Bulgaria.