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The New Mithraeum Database

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David A Toth

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Les cultes de Mithra dans l’Empire romain

From the late first century CE, Mithras spread across the Roman Empire, leaving more than 130 sanctuaries and nearly 1,000 inscriptions. This volume offers a rigorous synthesis that renews our understanding of this enigmatic cult.

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The Golden Chain of Initiation: Orphism, Eleusis, and Mystagogy—A Reinterpretation

By reading Orphic theology together with Eleusinian ritual practice, the mysteries emerge as a structured mystagogy of transformation: a disciplined passage from forgetfulness (Lethe) to knowledge (aletheia), from mortality to participation in the divine.

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London Mithraeum

The Mithraeum of London, also known as the Walbrook Mithraeum, was contextualised and relocated to its original site in 2016.

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The Mithraic Origin and Meanings of the Rotas-Sator Square

Moeller interprets the square as a Mithraic construction encoding cosmological, numerical, and theological structures of Roman mystery religion, rather than an early Christian cryptogram.

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Mithra, ce dieu mystérieux

Maarten Vermaseren, qui a publié un corpus des inscriptions et des monuments de la religion mithriaque et un certain nombre d'études savantes sur le même sujet est certainement l'un des meilleurs spécialistes de la question.

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I Misteri del Sole. Il culto di Mithra nell’Italia Antica

A study of Roman Mithraism that combines historical evidence with a symbol-centred interpretive approach, exploring Mithraic iconography, ritual experience, and the cult’s encounter with Christianity in the Late Empire.

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Il dio splendente. I Misteri romani di Mithra fra Oriente e Occidente

A study that re-examines Roman Mithraism through epigraphic evidence and comparative analysis, exploring its links with Orphism, Platonism, and Iranian traditions, and presenting the cult of Mithras as a solar path of individual spiritual awakening between East and West…

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Les Cultes à mystères dans l’Empire romain. Païens et Chrétiens en compétition

Francesco Massa examines how the concept of mysteria was transformed in the Roman Empire, as Christian authors from the mid-second century CE adopted the language of mysteries to articulate their own rituals and beliefs, reshaping understandings of both Christian and traditional cults…

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Mémoire sur un bas-relief mithriaque, qui a été découvert à Vienne (Isère)

Memoir by Félix Lajard analysing a Mithraic bas-relief discovered in Vienne in 1830. Based on direct examination of the fragments and their context, the study corrects an earlier misidentification and documents a rare lion-headed figure within a probable mithraeum…

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Tauroctony from Dormagen

The sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull found in Dormagen is exposed at Bonn Landesmuseum.

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Cultic mithraic vase of Zeughausstraße

The Mithraic vase from Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium in Germany includes Sol-Mithras between Cautes and Cautopates, as well as a serpent, a lion and seven stars.

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Coin of the Kushan Emperor Kanishka I

This gold coin depicts Kanishka I on one side and Mithras standing on the other side.

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Mitreo presso Porta Romana

Excavated in 1919, the Mithraeum near the Roman Gate was installed in the 3rd century within a larger building complex.

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Two-sided relief of Dieburg

The relief of Dieburg shows Mithras riding a horse as main figure, surrounded by several scenes of the myth.

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Mithras with bow from Dieburg

Statue in yellow sandstone found in the pit of the Mithraeum of Dieburg, showing Mithras standing beside an altar with bow and arrow, accompanied by a vase and associated with the water miracle.

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Limestone relief of Cautopates from Bologna

Limestone low-relief depicting Cautopates standing cross-legged in eastern dress, accompanied by a bull, flowing water from an overturned jar and a crescent from Bolognia.

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Greek graffiti from the Dura Europos Mithraeum

Greek graffiti scratched on wall plaster, recording a list of everyday expenses from Dura-Europos, Roman Syria.

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Petrogeny from Florence

The sculpture of the birth of Mithras in Florence included the head of Oceanus.

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Tauroctony from Mauls

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull at Mauls in Gallia cisalpina is a paradigmatic example of the so-called Rhine-type Tauroctony.

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