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Freedman who dedicated the first monument mentioning a Pater.
Garlic merchant, probably from Lusitania, who dedicated an altar to Cautes in Tarraconensis.
Vir clarissimus and governor of Numidia, who dedicated a temple to Mithras with its images and ornaments in Cirta.
Slave who, for the salvation of his master, built a spelaeum in Aquileia, complete with its furnishings.
Hyacinthus, like Hermadio, seems to have been one of the profets of Mithraism in the Dacian region.
Veteran from Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (Köln) who erected an inscritiption to Mithras and his ally Sol.
The votive fresco from the Mithraeum Barberini displays several scenes from Mithras’s myth.
The relief of Mithras slaying the bull of Nersae includes several episodes from the exploits of the solar god.
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.
The Mithraeum of London, also known as the Walbrook Mithraeum, was contextualised and relocated to its original site in 2016.
Francesco Massa examines how the concept of mysteria was transformed in the Roman Empire, as Christian authors from the mid-second century CE adopted the language of mysteries to articulate their own rituals and beliefs, reshaping understandings of both Christian and traditional cults…
The Mithraeum of Angers, excavated during a preventive operation and subsequently dismantled in 2010, yielded numerous objects, including coins, oil lamps, and a ceramic vessel bearing a votive inscription to the invincible god Mithras.
The sculpture of the birth of Mithras in Florence included the head of Oceanus.
The relief of Mithras slaying the bull at Mauls in Gallia cisalpina is a paradigmatic example of the so-called Rhine-type Tauroctony.
The Stockstadt Mercury carries a purse and a small child around which a snake is coiled.
This monument is the only one still available from the disappeared Mithraeum in Piazza S. Silvestro in Capite.
This altar mentioning the god Arimanius was found in 1655 at Porta San Giovanni, on the Esquilino.
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.
Cet ouvrage propose une étude d’ensemble du culte de Mithra en Afrique romaine. S’appuyant sur un rigoureux examen croisé des sources épigraphiques, archéologiques et littéraires, il restitue l’histoire et les spécificités de ce culte à mystères sur le sol africain…
