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The New Mithraeum Database

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Your search Franz-Valéry-Marie Cumont gave 203 results.

 
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Tauroctony from Mile, Jajce

This marble relief depicting Mithras as a bull-slayer was once owned by Major Holzhausen and Franz Cumont and is now housed at the Belgian Academy.

 
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Note from Franz Cumont on Sidon discoveries

The following note deserved an entry in Vermaseren’s Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae.

 
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Mithraeum of Qasr Ibn Wardan

According to F. Cumont, the Bedouins told a legend from which Nöldeke concluded that the castle of Quasr-ibn-Wardân was a fort with a mithraeum.

 
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Tauroctony relief found between Porta Portese and St Pancrace

Franz Cumont bought this relief of Mithras as a bullkiller from a dealer who claimed to have found it in a vineyard near the church of Saint Pancrace, in Rome.

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Aurelian

Roman emperor of humble origin who reunited the Empire and repelled the pressure of barbarian invasions and internal revolts.

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Thrasyllus of Mendes

Thrasyllus was an Egyptian of Greek descent grammarian, astrologer and a friend of the Roman emperor Tiberius.

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Nero

Fifth Roman emperor and last of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, reigning from 54 until his death in 68.

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Commodus

Roman emperor, son of the emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius.

 
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The “Mithras Liturgy”. Text, Translation, and Commentary

A critical edition of the Mithras Liturgy (PGM IV.475–834), providing the Greek text, English translation, commentary, and an updated discussion of its interpretation since Albrecht Dieterich’s 1903 edition.

 
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Select passages illustrating Mithraism

Collection of early passages on the cult of Mithras, curated and translated by A. S. Geden.

 
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Religions solaires et culte initiatique de Mithra

L'école mithriaque représente, à nos yeux, une source riche et féconde d'enseignements relatifs à la conduite de la vie. Il nous a semblé aussi que la psychothérapie actuelle se trouverait enrichie par l'étude des données des "psychodrames"…

 
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Mithras – Miθra – Mitra

Der römische Gott Mithras aus der Perspektive der vergleichenden Religionsgeschichte.

 
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The Excavations in the Mithraeum of the Church of Santa Prisca in Rome

The Mithraeum under and behind S. Prisca on the Aventine is without doubt the most important sanctuary of the Persian god in Rome.

 
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The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire. Mysteries of the Unconquered Sun

Roger Beck describes Mithraism from the point of view of the initiate engaging with the religion and its rich symbolic system in thought, word, ritual action, and cult life.

 
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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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Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae

Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae (or CIMRM) is a two volume collection of inscriptions and monuments relating primarily to the Mithraic Mysteries.

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