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Tiberius Claudius Thermodon

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

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Prudentus

Servus of a certain Primus, Prudentus offered a sculpture of Mithras rock-birth in Poetovio.

 
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Tauroctony from Nesce

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull of Nersae includes several episodes from the exploits of the solar god.

 
Notitia

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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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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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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CIMRM 997

Small limestone stele, discovered at Apt in 1903. It depicts a standing torchbearer in the conventional Mithraic posture and dress, accompanied by a cock placed at his feet.

 
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Plaque with the list of worshippers of Virunum

The bronze bears the dedication of a restoration of a Mithraeum carried out in 183.

 
Textum

At the Seizure of the Moon: The Absence of the Moon in the Mithras Liturgy

Radcliffe G. Edmonds III analyses the absence of the moon in the Mithras Liturgy. He argues that this absence reflects a deliberate cosmological framework in which lunar powers linked to genesis are excluded from the ritual of ascent.

 
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The Mithraic Prophecy

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.

 
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Los cultos de Mater Magna y Atis en Hispania

Tercera entrega de la trilogía de Jaime Alvar dedicada al estudio de los cultos a dioses procedentes de Oriente en la Península Ibérica.

 
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Cultores Mithrae. Die Anhangerschaft Des Mithras-Kultes

The starting point of this study of the initiation into the cult of Mithras are the 462 sites where traces of the cult have been found to date. They form the framework of the study.

 
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The Mithraeum at Caesarea Martima. The joint expedition to Caesarea Maritima excavation reports, volume II

This monograph presents the findings from Robert J. Bull's 1973 excavation of the Mithraeum in Caesarea Maritima, Israel, including stratigraphic analyses, studies of frescoes and and insights into the site's historical significance.

 
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Mithriaca II. The Mithraeum at Ponza

Second volume of Vermaseren's series Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'Empire romain, Mithriaca, dedicated to a small Mithraic sanctuary on the island of Ponza in the Tyrrhenian Sea.

 
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Aion from Ciciliano

Gold lamina from Ciciliano showing a nude, serpent-entwined Aion-Kronos holding a key and surrounded by Greek voces magicae (2nd c. CE).

 
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Mithraeum of Cirta

An inscription mentioning a speleum decorated by Publilius Ceionius suggests the location of a mithraeum in Cirta, the capital of Numidia.

 
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Frescoes from the tomb of Aelius Magnus and Aelia Arisuth in Oea

The Mithraic nature of the frescoes of Oea, according to the scholars Cumont and Vermaseren, is now questioned.

 
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Mithräum von Saalburg

In the 1900s a model Mithraeum was built in Saalburg in the mistaken belief that there was an original temple of Mithras in an ancient Roman building.

 
Notitia

De fluviis

Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis. Goodwin, Ed. Plutarch. Plutarch’s Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press of John Wilson and son.

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