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  • Liber

    Les Lamelles d'or orphiques (2003)

    Depuis la première moitié du XIXe siècle et encore tout récemment, on a retrouvé dans des tombes de Grande Grèce, de Crète ou de Thessalie, des lamelles d'or, très fines, datables du IVe au IIe siècle av. J.-C., qui contiennent des instructions d…
  • Liber

    The Mithraic Prophecy (2022)

    Why did the Romans worship a Persian god? This book presents a new reading of the Mithraic iconography taking into account that the cult had a prophecy.
  • Liber

    Il Mitreo dei Castra Peregrinorum (S. Stefano Rotondo) (1986)

    Lissa-Caronna details the excavation and findings of a mithraeum beneath San Stefano Rotondo, focusing on its decor, sculptures, and rituals.
  • Syndexios

    Tiberius Claudius Thermodon

    Dedicated multiple monuments to Mithras, Fortuna Primigenia and Diana in Etruria.
  • Syndexios

    Curius Iuvenalis

    Pater Curius Iuvenalis is attested in the first known monument dedicated by a Heliodromus.
  • Syndexios

    Memmius Placidus

    He was a Heliodromus who recorded his grade on an inscription dedicated to Mithras.
  • Notitia

    The Mirror of Mithras

    Over the last century or so, a great deal has been said about the god Mithras and his mysteries, which became known to the European world mainly through his Roman cultus during the Imperial Period.
  • Notitia

    Del mitraísmo a la masonería. Una historia de las ideas

    Doce siglos separan el ocaso del mitraísmo romano del alba de la masonería. Doce siglos durante los cuales, los misterios de Mitra han permanecido más secretos que nunca.
  • Monumentum

    Procession Fresco from Santa Prisca

    Figures in procession, each representing a different grade of Mithraic initiation, labeled with their respective titles.

    TNMM115 – CIMRM 480

    Nama [patribus] / ab oriente / ad occidente(m) / tutela Saturni. [Na]ma H[eliodromis] / tute[l]a S[ol]is. [Na]ma Persis / tutela [Mer]curis. Nama L[e]on[i]b[us] j tutela Iovis. Nama Militibus j tutela…
  • Monumentum

    CIMRM 615

    Roman stone low-relief depicting Mithras as a bull-slayer, with the upper part of his head missing.

    TNMM1123 – CIMRM 615

  • Monumentum

    CIMRM 496

    Upper part of a goddess Fortuna of marble from Luna.

    TNMM1048 – CIMRM 496

  • Monumentum

    Stars of the Mitreo de Santa Maria Capua Vetere

    The vault of the Mithraeum in S. Capua Vetere is decorated with stars that have holes in their centers, which once held colorful glass decorations.

    TNMM175

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Absalmos

    The relief depict several unusual scenes from Mithras’s myth.

    TNMM128

    ἐκ τῶν τοῦ θεοῦ ἐπὶ ̕Αβσάλμου.
  • Monumentum

    Sol and Luna fenster from Rome

    Fragments of a marble relief of Sol, which probably served as a fenster.

    TNMM1022 – CIMRM 458

  • Monumentum

    Mithras-Men from Rome

    Relief possibly depicting Mithras-Men holding a torch and a a bust of Luna on a crescent.

    TNMM1077 – CIMRM 541

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony from Salita delle Tre Pile

    White marble relief depicting Mithras killing the bull, found broken in two parts in 1872 near Salita delle Tre Pile in Rome.

    TNMM995 – CIMRM 417

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Mile, Jajce

    This marble relief depicting Mithras as a bull-slayer was once owned by Major Holzhausen and Franz Cumont and is now housed at the Belgian Academy.

    TNMM805 – CIMRM 1906

  • Monumentum

    Two-sided relief from Konjic

    The mithraic relief of Konjic shows a Tauroctony in one side and a ritual meal in the other.

    TNMM259 – CIMRM 1896

    Deo Soli inv[ict]o Meter[ae].
 
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