The New Mithraeum Database

« Voici un livre écrit dans l'enthousiasme, et capable de susciter des vocations. Il s'adresse à un public assez large, ce qui en excuse d'avance certains rapprochements un peu gros et certaines redites, point inutiles quand il s'agit de notions ou de …

A.B. Candidate in Departments of History and Classics at Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)

Avant-propos Ce volume comprend, à côté de nombreux comptes rendus, regroupés dans le fascicule 2, une série de dossiers traitant de thèmes chers à la revue (l'Orient hellénisé), ou illustrant une approche pluridisciplinaire. Trois d'entre eux…

Saul cutting the oxen to pieces poses as Mithras Tauroctonos in this painting, which adorns the mantelpiece of Henry II’s bedroom at the Château d’Écouen near Paris.

TNMM771

This white marble relief depicting a lion-headed figure from Ostia is now exposed at the Musei Vaticani.

TNMM440 – CIMRM 314, 315

This small magical jasper gem shows Sol in a quadrigra on the recto and Mithras as a bull slayer on the verso.

TNMM769 – CIMRM 2361

This relief of Mithras slaying the bull was erected in Piazza del Campidoglio, moved to Villa Borghese and is now in the Louvre Museum.

TNMM131 – CIMRM 415, 416

Mithras rock-born from Villa Giustiniani was holding a bunch of grapes in its raised right hand instead of a torch, probably due to a restoration.

TNMM124 – CIMRM 590, 591

The sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull was transported from Rome to London by Charles Standish in 1815.

TNMM328 – CIMRM 592

Engraving with cosmological and symbolic mithraic elements.

TNMM211