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Offered the famous Tauroctony of Osterburken to the unconquerable sun god Mithras.
This unusual piece depicts Mithras slaying the bull on one side and the Gnostic god Abraxas on the other.
This collective volume explores the ways ancient peoples interacted with divine powers through prayer, magic, and the interpretation of the stars. Drawing on evidence from Mesopotamia to Late Antiquity, it situates these practices within broader religious and cosmological systems…
Cet ouvrage propose une étude d’ensemble du culte de Mithra en Afrique romaine. S’appuyant sur un rigoureux examen croisé des sources épigraphiques, archéologiques et littéraires, il restitue l’histoire et les spécificités de ce culte à mystères sur le sol africain…
Robert Turcan présente les dévotions immigrées dans le monde romain, sans négliger les cultes marginaux ou sporadiques, traitant également des courants gnostiques, occultistes et théosophiques.
Peter Mark Adams’ The Game of Saturn: Decoding the Sola-Busca Tarocchi is the first full length, scholarly study of the enigmatic Renaissance masterwork known as the Sola-Busca tarot.
Lissa-Caronna details the excavation and findings of a mithraeum beneath San Stefano Rotondo, focusing on its decor, sculptures, and rituals.
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.
Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae (or CIMRM) is a two volume collection of inscriptions and monuments relating primarily to the Mithraic Mysteries.
Pessinus was an Ancient city and archbishopric in Asia Minor, a geographical area roughly covering modern Anatolia.
Mendes was a famous city that attracted the notice of most ancient geographers and historians, including Herodotus, Diodorus, Strabo, Mela, Pliny the Elder, Ptolemy, and Stephanus of Byzantium. The city was the capital of the Mendesian nome.
Apulum, now within Alba Iulia, was a Roman settlement first mentioned by the mathematician, astrologer and geographer Ptolemy. Its name comes from the Dacian Apoulon.
I am honored to present my first book devoted to the cult of Mithras in ancient North Africa. Structured into four main sections, it also features a catalogue of twenty inscriptions and twenty-six illustrative plates…
In his first book, Fahim Ennouhi sheds light on the cult of Mithras in Roman Africa. A marginal and elitist phenomenon, confined to restricted circles and largely absent from local religious dynamics, yet revealing.
