This site uses cookies to offer you a better browsing experience.
Find out more on how we use cookies in our privacy policy.

 
Quaere

The New Mithraeum Database

Find news, articles, monuments, persons, books and videos related to the Cult of Mithras

Your search Bu Njem gave 1183 results.

 
Notitia

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.

 
Notitia

Raised by Wolves: Mithraism and Sol Explained

HBO Max's sci-fi series Raised By Wolves features a religious faction that references Sol and the Mithraic Mysteries. Here are the real-world Roman concepts the show borrowed from.

 
Notitia

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.

 
Notitia

Newly-found petroglyph in western Iran may have link to Mithraism

Some Iranian archaeologists suggest that the carving was created by a follower of Mithraism as it depicts a simple portrayal of a human with his right hand raised and an object in his hand. But, experts say it needs much more study in order to date the pe

 
Notitia

Roman Temple of Mithras May Align with Sun on 'Jesus' Birthday'

The temple of Mithras disclosed three main stages of development, the second exhibiting two reconstructions.

 
Notitia

Un sanctuaire dédié au dieu Mithra découvert en Corse

L’Inrap vient de mettre au jour un lieu de culte dédié au dieu Mithra sur le site de Mariana, à Lucciana, France.

 
Notitia

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.

 
Notitia

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.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 996

Two fragments of red pottery, belonging to a plate (diam. 0.22), found "beim Bahneinschnitt in der Nahe der Schiitzenstrasze".

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 995

Fragment of pottery (diam. 0.095); find-spot unknown.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 994

Three fragments of a plate (diam. 0.14), found at Treves, in the pottery's work- shops along the Ziegelstrasze near the Roman Wall.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 971

The upper part of a dressed male person (H. 0.20 Br. 0.23 D. 0.105) with a wreath or broad ring in his r.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 950

1) Right upper comer of a stone relief (H. 0.27 Br. 0.22 D. 0.14).

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 948

Fragment of a limestone relief (H. 0.30 Br. 0.40 D. 0.09).

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 947

Fragment of a stone relief (H. 0.15 Br. 0.24 D. 0.13).

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 945

A fragment of a stone relief, broken in two pieces (H. 0.31 Br. 0.35 D. 0.03).

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 944

Fragment of a white stone relief (H. 0.23 Br. 0.29 D. 0.12).

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 943

Fragment of a pebble relief (H. 0.32 Br. 0.31 D. 0.13).

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 940

Small stone base (H. 0.17 Br. 0.16 D. 0.18), found in the bed of the river Nohain during operations at the railway (Sarriau).

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 938

Five fragments in red terra-sigillata (H. 0.09).

Back to Top