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The New Mithraeum Database

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

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Notitia

Dancing out the Mysteries of Dionysos

Peter Mark Adams: ‘The initiation was a frightening experience that caused some people to panic as a flood of otherworldly entities swept through the ritual space.’.

Liber

Mushrooms, Myth & Mithras. The Drug Cult That Civilized Europe

In their groundbreaking new book, Mushrooms, Myths & Mithras, classics scholar Carl Ruck and friends reveal compelling evidence suggesting that psychedelic mushroom use was equally influential in early Europe, where it was central to initiation cerem

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Rückingen

Sandstone Mithras relief discovered in 1950 near Rückingen, proving the existence of a Mithraeum there from the late second to early third century AD

Monumentum

Mithräum von Saarbrücken

The Mithraeum in Halberg hill, near Saarbrücken, is one of the oldest historical places in the area.

Monumentum

Base of a Cautes statuette with inscription from Carlisle

The base of a statuette, preserving only one foot of Cautes, found at Luguvallium (modern Carlisle), bearing a dedication to Deus Cautes by Iulius, the archietus.

Monumentum

Minor cult objects from Rückingen

Miscellaneous objects from the Rückingen Mithraeum including stone balls, cult-vase fragments, lamps, and two candlesticks

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Multi-figure relief assemblage from Rückingen

Group of sandstone relief fragments from Rückingen depicting multiple deities including a male head identified as Hercules

Monumentum

Two women's heads from Rückingen

Two sandstone relief fragments from Rückingen, each preserving a woman's head looking to the left

Monumentum

Naked figure in niche from Rückingen

Sandstone relief fragment from Rückingen showing the upper part of an undressed male figure in a niche, head and left arm lost

Monumentum

Standing figure in niche from Rückingen

Sandstone relief fragment from Rückingen with an indistinct standing figure, probably a woman, in an arched niche

Monumentum

Walking figure fragment from Rückingen

Lower part of a sandstone relief fragment from Rückingen preserving only the lower body of a walking figure, legs lost

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Head in Phrygian cap from Rückingen

Small sandstone relief fragment from Rückingen preserving only the upper part of a head wearing a Phrygian cap

Monumentum

Fragmentary sacred inscription from Rückingen

Fragmentary Latin inscription from Rückingen recording a dedication to a goddess whose name is only partially preserved

Monumentum

Fragmentary sandstone relief from Rückingen

Fragmentary sandstone relief from Rückingen showing a male figure walking right and holding a kantharos. Traces on the chest may indicate a torques or shoulder-cape.

Locus

Bruckla (Bruckla)

The locality of Bruckla is associated with archaeological remains from the Roman province of Dacia.

Locus

Luguvallium (Carlisle)

Luguvallium was a Roman settlement and fort in northern Britannia, today Carlisle.

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