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The New Mithraeum Database

Find news, articles, monuments, persons, books and videos related to the Cult of Mithras

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Notitia

The Father of Mithras

It is well known that Mithras was born from a rock. However, less has been written about the father of the solar god, and especially about how he conceived him.

 
Monumentum

Mithräum von Neuenheim

Only a small part of the Neuenheim Mithraeum has been excavated.

 
Monumentum

Inscription of Victorinus from Tibur

This tabula marmorea was consecrated by a certain slave Vitorinus in Tibur, nowadays Tivoli, near Rome.

 
Monumentum

Antiochus I shakes hands with Mithras

Antiochus I of Commagene shakes Mithras hands in this relief from the Nemrut Dagi temple.

 
Monumentum

Intaglio of chalcedony at the BnF

This intaglio depicting Mithras killing the bull is preserved at the Bibliothèque national de France.

 
Video

Une SOCIETE SECRETE au cœur de l'Empire Romain ? - LE CULTE DE MITHRA

Des rituels mystérieux, une hiérarchie gradée au sein d’un culte énigmatique, une société considérée pendant longtemps comme secrète au sein de l’Empire Romain…

Socius

Nicolas Amoroso

Curator of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Royal Museum of Mariemont (Belgium). Research fields: Archaeology of the Oriental cults in the Roman Empire.

 
Video

L'Antre persique et son décor

Intervention par Alexandra Dardenay, maître de conférences à l'Université de Toulouse/CNRS/IUF

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony relief exposed at the Hermitage Museum

The relief marble of Mithras sacrifying the bull, exposed on the Hermitage Museum comes from Rome.

 
Video

Présentation de l'exposition du Musée Saint-Raymond de Toulouse

Mithra et ses actualités - Journée d'études (17 décembre 2021) au Musée royal de Mariemont.

 
Video

The mithraeum of Dura-Europos. New discoveries about an old excavation

Intervention de Lucinda Dirven, Universiteit van Amsterdam.

 
Video

Des images mithriaques à l’époque médiévale ?

Intervention de Nicolas Amoroso, commissaire de l’exposition Le Mystère Mithra.

 
Monumentum

Head of Mithras from the Mitreo degli Animali

The head of Mithras had seven holes made for fastening rays.

 
Monumentum

Altar with Mithras rock-birth of Nida

The Mithraic stele from Nida depicts the Mithras Petrogenesis and the gods Cautes, Cautopates, Heaven and Ocean.

 
Monumentum

Goblet of Angers

The spherical ceramic cup found at the Mithraeum in Angers bears an inscription to the unconquered god Mithras.

 
Monumentum

Mitreo all'Arco di San Lazzaro

Three mithraic monuments were found in 1931, suggesting that a mithraeum probably existed in the area.

 
Monumentum

Aion of Mérida

The Aion-Chronos of Mérida was found near the bullring of the current city, once capital of the Roman province Hispania Ulterior.

 
Monumentum

Lion relief from Nemrut Dag

The lion relief from Nemrut Dag has the moon and several stars over his body.

 
Monumentum

Heracles captures the Golden Hind of Artemis

Relief of Heracles/Hercules capturing the Golden Hind of Artemis.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Sî`

In the tauroctony of Jabal al-Druze in Syria, the snake appears to be licking the head of the bull's penis.

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