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Column with inscription by workers of the pig market

The inscription included the names of the brotherhood, which are now lost.

 
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Painted scenes from the Mithras legend at Dura Europos

Around the relief with Mithras as a bullkiller, a number of scenes from the Mithras Iegend have been painted in the Mithraeum of Dura Europos.

 
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Mithraeum of Hawarti

The Mithraeum of Hauarte or Hawarte, which preserves colourful frescoes, it’s the latest know and used.

 
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Mithraeum of Dunaújváros (Intercisa)

The Dunaújváros Mithraeum was discovered in 1973.

 
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Intaglio with Mithras and Abraxas at the Walters Art Museum

This unusual piece depicts Mithras slaying the bull on one side and the Gnostic god Abraxas on the other.

 
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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

 
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Mithras in Africa

In his first book, Fahim Ennouhi sheds light on the cult of Mithras in Roman Africa. A marginal and elitist phenomenon, confined to restricted circles and largely absent from local religious dynamics, yet revealing.

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Philip Rife

student of religion

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Agatho

Agatho has dedicated several monuments to Mithras in the Coelian Hill.

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Marcellinus

Marcellinus was an antistes who reached the grade of Leo in Rome.

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Kastos (father)

Together with his son, with whom he shares his name, Kastos has dedicated several monuments in Rome to the glory of Zeus Helios Mithras.

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Tiberius Claudius Thermodon

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

 
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Inscription from the ascent to the Capitoline Hill

Reperta in ascensu Capitolii.

 
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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.

 
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Mithraism As Proud Boy Prototype: Underground Clubs of the Syndexioi and Pueri Superbi

Tracing the links between the cult of Mithras and the Proud Boys’ quest for identity, power, and belonging. How ancient rituals and brotherhood ideals resurface in radical modern movements.

 
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Dedication to Zeus-Helios, Mithras, and Phanes

This is the first known inscription that includes Phanes alongside Mithras found in a Mithraic context.

 
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Tauroctony from Aula Gotica

What appears to be a representation of Mithras killing the bull appears in the 12th century frescoes of the Basilica dei Santi Quattro Coronati in Rome.

 
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Inscription to Mithras by Claudius Romanius from Köln

Votive inscription dedicated to Mithras by the veteran soldier Tiberius Claudius Romanius, from the Mithraeum II Köln, 3rd century.

 
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On the Cave of the Nymphs

Translation and Introductory Essay by Robert Lamberton. Station Hill Press Barrytown, New York 1983.

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