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The New Mithraeum Database

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Let’s talk about Mithras with Yolanda De Iuliis

Yolanda’s multimedia dissertation focuses on the cognitive mechanisms that motivate Mithras worshippers. Her work includes a podcast entitled Conversations about Mithras.

Monumentum

Grand camée de France

Some authors have speculated that the flying figure dressed in oriental style and holding a globe could be Mithras.

Monumentum

Mitreo Aldobrandini

The Mithraeum of Aldobrandini was excavated in 1924 by G. Calza on the premises belonging to the Aldobrandini family.

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Archaeological Evidence of the Cult of Mithras in Ancient Italy

PhD Thesis by Vittoria Canciani, coordinated by A. Mastrocinque. Verona, 14th April 2022.

Monumentum

Mitreo del Circo Massimo

The Mithraeum of the Circus Maximus was discovered in 1931 during work carried out to create a storage area for the scenes and costumes of the Opera House within the Museums of Rome building.

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Cautopates of Sarmizegetusa with scorpion

The Cautopates with scorpion found in 1882 in Sarmizegetusa includes an inscription of a certain slave known as Synethus.

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Venus of Mérida small sculpture

The lack of attributes and its decontextualisation prevent us from attributing a specific Mithraic attribution to this small Venus pudica from Mérida.

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Aesculapius of Merida

This standing sculptural figure from Mérida appears to carry the serpent staff, characteristic of the medicine god Aesculapius.

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Mithraic Sol altar with backlight of Bingen

The altar of the Sun god belongs to the typology of the openwork altar to be illuminated from behind.

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Tauroctony from Sisak

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull of Sisak includes the zodiac and multiple scenes from the myth of Mithras.

Notitia

Mariemont unveils (some of) the Mysteries of Mithras

The exhibition The Mystery of Mithras opens at the Mariemont Museum in Belgium, home of Franz Cumont, the father of studies on the solar god.

Video

The Literary Holy Grail of Mithraic Studies, East and West: The Parthian Epic of Samak-e ʿAyyar

Prof. Parvaneh Pourshariati; 9th European Conference of Iranian Studies, Free University of Berlin, September 2019.

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Call for PhD students and post-doctoral fellows specialising in Mithras

On the occasion of the exhibition, the Royal Museum of Mariemont invites five experts from Europe to emulate the research on the cult of Mithras.

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Reconstructing the Roman Mystery Religion of Mithras

Our modern understanding of Mithraism, though, depends largely on a few short (and very problematic) literary mentions, mostly written by the cult’s Christian rivals.

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Newly-found petroglyph in western Iran may have link to Mithraism

Some Iranian archaeologists suggest that the carving was created by a follower of Mithraism as it depicts a simple portrayal of a human with his right hand raised and an object in his hand. But, experts say it needs much more study in order to date the pe

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Inscription to Sol Apollo Anicetus from Rudchester

Fragmentary inscription from Vindobala preserving a rare dedication to “Sol Apollo Anicetus” within a Mithraic context on Hadrian’s Wall.

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Thun-Allmendingen (Thun)

Allmendingen near Thun occupies a strategic position between the Swiss plateau and Alpine communications routes.

Monumentum

Marble statue of Bonus Eventus from the Walbrook Mithraeum, London

A white marble statue from the Mithraeum at Walbrook in London, depicting Bonus Eventus standing in a long hanging cloak, leaning on a ship's stem, holding a cornucopia against his shoulder and a patera above a burning altar from the back of which a…

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Julian

The last pagan emperor of Rome, closely associated with Mithras and Neoplatonic interpretations of the Sun God.

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Mithraic find from London

Archaeological material from the Mithraeum of Londinium discussed in Hill’s study of Roman London.

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