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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…
Laurent Bricault has revolutionised Mithraic studies with the exhibition The Mystery of Mithras. Meet this professor in Toulouse for a fascinating look at the latest discoveries and what lies ahead.
Carrara is a town and comune in Tuscany, in northern Italy, of the province of Massa and Carrara, and notable for the white or blue-grey marble quarried there.
This marble altar was found ’in the street called di Branco’, behind the palace of the Cardinal of Bologna, in Rome.
This inscription by a certain Memmius Placidus is the first ever found signed by a Heliodromus.
This altar bears an inscription to the health of the emperor Commodus by a certain Marcus Aurelius, his father and two other fellows.
The round relief of Mithras killing the bull of Split is surrounded by a circle with Sun, Moon, Saturn and some unusual animals.
Emperor Julian is supposed to have presided over a human sacrifice in the Mithraeum of Scarbantia, according to N. Massalsky.
In the back of the sanctuary, on the spot of the main relief, there lay on a fragment of this monument the skeleton of a man of about thirty or fourty years old.
