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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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Celestial Ascent in Myth and Cult

The Dream of Scipio, the Orphic Gold Plates, and the Mithra Liturgy are compared revealing a common cosmovision predicated on the microcosm.

 
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Tauroctony of the Collezione Torlonia

This remarkable Greek marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was discovered in 1705 and remained in private collections until it was bought by the Louvre.

 
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Mitreo di Santa Maria Capua Vetere

The Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere preserves frescoes depicting several scenes of the initiation rites.

 
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Mitreo delle Sette Sfere

The Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres (Sette Sfere) is of great importance for the understanding of the cult, because of its black-and-white mosaics depicting the planets, the zodiac and related elements.

 
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Cult vessel with snake representations of St. Egyden

Upon first examination, archaeologists interpreted the inscription on the cult vessel from Gradishje as referencing Mithras, though it has since been re-evaluated.

 
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Mitreo d’Aosta

The remains of the Mithraeum of Aosta, also known as the Mitreo di Augusta Praetoria, were discovered in 1953 in insula 59, in a commercial district of the ancient city.

 
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Mithra’s statue in Boztepe Hill

This eulogy of Saint Eugene of Trapezos tells how, in the time of Diocletian, he and two other Christian fellows destroyed a statue of Mithras.

 
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Altar of Merida consecrated by Marcus Valerius Secundus

This altar is dedicated to the birth of Mithras by a frumentarius of the Legio VII Geminae.

 
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Inscription of Cimber and Exsocho from Cologne

This monument with an inscription by two individuals was found in the first mithraeum of Cologne, Germany.

 
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Altar of Lucretius Mnester and Aemilius Philetus

This marble altar was found ’in the street called di Branco’, behind the palace of the Cardinal of Bologna, in Rome.

 
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Altar of Carnuntum by the Augusti and Caesares

Altar with Cautes and Cautopates dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras as protector of the Tetrarchy in 3rd-century Carnuntum.

 
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Inscription by Aurelius Rufinus of Andros

This inscription reveals the existence of a Mithraeum on the island of Andros, Greece, which has not yet been found.

 
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Tauroctony of Velletri

The Tauroctony found in Velletri, Rome, bears an inscription from its owner and donor.

 
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Mithraeum of Dura Europos

The most emblematic of the Syrian Mithraea was discovered in 1933 by a team led by the Russian historian Mikhaïl Rostovtzeff.

 
Notitia

A mithraic ritual

Preamble and notes published by G. R. S. Mead in his series Echoes from the Gnosis 1907, London and Benares. Translation of the manuscript by Dieterich Eine Mithrasliturgie 1903, Leipzig.

 
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Mitreo de Cabra

The Mithraeum of Cabra is located in the Villa del Mitra, which owes its name to the discovery in 1951 of a Mithras tauroctonus in the remains of the Roman villa.

 
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Mithraeum of Sárkeszi

The Sárkeszi mithraeum is unusual for its large dimensions and its semicircular eastern wall.

 
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Mithräum von Trier

The Trier Mithräum was discovered during work on the city’s new fire station. The findings included a Cautes limestone relief.

 
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Lion-headed Aion from Sidon

The controversial Italian journalist Edmon Durighello discovered this marble statue of a young naked Aion in 1887.

 
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The MITHRA Project

Laurent Bricault has revolutionised Mithraic studies with the exhibition The Mystery of Mithras. Meet this professor in Toulouse for a fascinating look at the latest discoveries and what lies ahead.

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