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The New Mithraeum Database

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

Your search Jan Theo Bakker gave 167 results.

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Terentius Priscus

He was initiated and cured thanks to the invincible Nabarze.

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Theodoros

Pater at Dura Europos

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Titus Tettius Plotus

Pater Sacrorum and veteran of the Legio IV Flavia Felix.

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Veturius Dubitatus

Veteran and ex duplicarius of ala I civum Romanorum who dedicated an altar to Mithras in Teutoburgium.

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Flavius Septimius Zosimus

Vir perfectissimus and priest of Zeus Brontes and Hecate, he erected a mithraeum in Rome.

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Tiberius Claudius Thermodon

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

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Mercatorius Castrensis

Offered the famous Tauroctony of Osterburken to the unconquerable sun god Mithras.

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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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Theodoros

One of the lions mentioned on the Santa Prisca procession fresco.

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Hermadio

Hermadio's inscriptions have been found in Dacian Tibiscum and Sarmizegetusa, as well as in Rome.

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Doryphorus

Doryphorus gave his grade and name in a monumental candalabrum found in Rome.

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Nigidius Figulus

Pythagorean and mage.

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Iουλιανος

Soldier of the Legio XVI Flavia Firma Antoniana stationed at Dura Europos.

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Alcimus

Slave and bailiff of Tiberius Claudius Livianus.

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Gaius Iulius

For the health of this man, a small altar was dedicated to the god Invictus in the Emerita Augusta.

 
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Hieronymus’ letter to Laeta

In Letter 107 to Laeta, Jerome combines a pastoral reflection on conversion with an account of the urban prefect Gracchus, who ordered the destruction of a Mithraic cave in Rome, listing the seven grades of initiation associated with the cult.

 
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Inscription of Olympus to his grandfather

This monument is the only one still available from the disappeared Mithraeum in Piazza S. Silvestro in Capite.

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Marceleus Marianus

Donated the monumental relief of Sarrebourg.

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Materninius Faustinus

He erected one of the last known mithraea on his property.

 
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Gregory of Nazianzus on rites, tortures and orgies

A series of polemical passages in which a leading fourth-century Christian theologian presents the cult of Mithras as a religion defined by cruelty, bodily suffering, and shameful initiation rites.

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