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The New Mithraeum Database

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

Your search Carl A. P. Ruck gave 86 results.

Locus

Bedaium (Seeon-Seebruck)

Bedaium occupied a position near the Chiemsee lake region within the northern Alpine frontier zone.

Monumentum

Tauroctony in Copenhagen

This statue of Mithras as a bullkiller was bought at Rome where it might be found.

Monumentum

Denarius depicting Mithras rock-birth of St. Albans

The mithraic denarius of St. Albans dates from the 2nd century.

Locus

Petrianae (Stanwix)

Petrianae was a Roman fort on Hadrian’s Wall, generally associated with Stanwix near Carlisle.

Monumentum

Marble busts from Formiae

Two marble busts of youthful figures with Phrygian caps, probably representing the torchbearers Cautes and Cautopates, from the Villa Borghese collection, found at Formiae.

Monumentum

Mithraeum II at Stockstadt

Second Mithraic sanctuary discovered at Stockstadt between 1909 and 1913, situated on a slope near the river Main, with finds at Aschaffenburg

Monumentum

Mithraic finds from San Zeno and Val di Non

Group of Mithraic finds distributed across different localities named San Zeno along the Verona–Brenner route.

Monumentum

Decorated altar with Medusa from Apulum

Limestone altar from Apulum, Dacia, decorated on one side with Medusa, on another with a vase, flowers, a bull's head, and a serpent; the front bears an inscription.

Monumentum

Altar of an Augustalis from Mureș Port

Limestone altar from Mureș Port near Apulum, Dacia, dedicated to Invicto Mithrae; the dedicant is identified only as Augustalis (coloniae?).

Monumentum

Supposed Mithraeum of Saalburg

Elongated cult building near the Saalburg fort traditionally interpreted as a Mithraeum but later reconsidered as a possible funerary enclosure.

Monumentum

Mitreo di Ponza

This Mithraic shrine on the island of Ponza is renowned for its exceptional stucco zodiac and astral symbolism linked to Roman Mithaism.

Monumentum

Pottery depicting Mithras

This fragment of pottery depicting Mithras may have come from Gallia.

Monumentum

Mithraic altar from Venosa

This altar dedicated to Helios Mithras by a certain Sagaris was repurposed in the masonry of Palazzo Bagnoli, Venosa, Italy.

Monumentum

Votive altar to Mithras from Poetovio

Marble votive altar with inscription to Mithras, featuring coiled, fan-like motifs above the text and associated with the statio Enensis.

Monumentum

Two-sided relief of Dieburg

The relief of Dieburg shows Mithras riding a horse as main figure, surrounded by several scenes of the myth.

Monumentum

Tauroctony from Mauls

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull at Mauls in Gallia cisalpina is a paradigmatic example of the so-called Rhine-type Tauroctony.

Monumentum

Cautes from Boppard

Statue of Cautes from Bodobrica, discovered around 1940, depicting the torchbearer standing before a tree or rock and associated with a bucranium.

Liber

Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World

This collective volume explores the ways ancient peoples interacted with divine powers through prayer, magic, and the interpretation of the stars. Drawing on evidence from Mesopotamia to Late Antiquity, it situates these practices within broader religious and cosmological systems…

Liber

Mithras: Geschichte einer Gottheit

Keiner der zahlreichen heidnischen Kulte und keine antike Religion hat das Christentum in einer Weise herausgefordert und geprägt, wie der römische Mysterienkult des Sonnen- und Erlösergottes Mithras.

Liber

Mithras – Miθra – Mitra

Der römische Gott Mithras aus der Perspektive der vergleichenden Religionsgeschichte.

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