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The New Mithraeum Database

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Your search Carel Claudius van Essen gave 309 results.

 
Notitia

Adams on Mithras

Restoring the Mysteries: A Conversation with Peter Mark Adams on his new book ‘Ritual & Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras’.

 
Textum

De Abstinentia

Two extracts from De abstinentia ab esu animalium by Porphyry on sacrifices and the importance of abstinence from animal food among Persian Magi.

 
Textum

Quaestiones veteris et novi testamenti

Questions on the old and new testaments, 113.11. Ambrosiaster, 5th cent.

 
Video

Le MYSTÉRIEUX culte de MITHRA

Nouveau video de Mysteria dédié au culte de Mithra à partir de l'exposition Le mystère de Mithra au Musée Saint Raymond.

 
Notitia

Contra Celsum

229 A.D. The passage quoted is from the sixty-third book, ch. 10. Origen

 
Notitia

The Crossed Bones and Lady Liberty

The Cilician pirates incorporated significant divine feminine elements, notably Anahita, into their Mithraic practices, profoundly influencing the initiation rites within the Roman Empire.

 
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

Altar for Cautopates from Ptuj

Altar for Cautopates.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony of the Mitreo delle terme di Mitra

The person who commanded the sculpture may have been M. Umbilius Criton, documented in the Mitreo della Planta Pedis.

 
Monumentum

Raven from Stockstadt

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

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Absalmos

The relief depict several unusual scenes from Mithras’s myth.

 
Monumentum

Mithras-Men from Rome

Relief possibly depicting Mithras-Men holding a torch and a a bust of Luna on a crescent.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 483

Continuation of the frescoes depicting an initiation into the Mithras cult, where two attendants present a repast to Mithras and Sol.

 
Monumentum

Terra sigillata bowl depicting the Mithraic cult meal from Trier

This terra sigillata was found in 1926 in a grave on the Roman cemetery of St. Matthias, Trier. An eyelet indicates that it could have been hung on a wall.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 8

Inscription from Hamadan where the ’great king’ Artaxerxes mentions Ahuramazda, Anahita, and Mithra as guardians.

 
Monumentum

Mitreo di Angera

The existence of a mithraeum in the "tana del lupo", a natural cave in the castle of Angera, has been assumed since the 19th century, following the discovery of two mithraic inscriptions in the town.

 
Monumentum

Major fresco of the Mitreo Barberini

The votive fresco from the Mithraeum Barberini displays several scenes from Mithras’s myth.

 
Monumentum

London Mithraeum

The Mithraeum of London, also known as the Walbrook Mithraeum, was contextualised and relocated to its original site in 2016.

 
Monumentum

Fragments of a column base from Hamadan

The base of the column bears an inscription that records the rebuilding of a palace at Ectabana ’by the favour of Ahuramaza, Anahita and Mithra’.

 
Monumentum

Mithraic relief of Baris

The Mithraic relief from Baris, in present-day Turkey, shows what appears to be a proto-version of the Tauroctony, with a winged Mithras surrounded by two Victories.

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