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The New Mithraeum Database

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Réfutation des sectes

Deux extraits rapportés par Eznik de Goghp, Ve siècle, sur la création du Soleil selon les mythologies des mages.

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Discourse on the doctrines and practices of the magi

Dion Chrysostom, c. 100 A.D., a philosophical writer under the emperors Nerva and Trajan, composed a series of discourses or essays (λόγοι) on various subjects, in one of which he reports concerning the doctrines and practices of the magi.

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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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Titus Flavius Hyginus Ephebianus

Freedman who dedicated the first monument mentioning a Pater.

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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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Nigidius Figulus

Pythagorean and mage.

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Flavius Septimius Zosimus

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

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Iουλιανος

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

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Theodoros

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

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Titus Tettius Plotus

Pater Sacrorum and veteran of the Legio IV Flavia Felix.

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Mercatorius Castrensis

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

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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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Marceleus Marianus

Donated the monumental relief of Sarrebourg.

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Tiberius Claudius Thermodon

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

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Materninius Faustinus

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

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Doryphorus

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

Notitia

Contra Celsum

229 A.D. The passage quoted is from the sixty-third book, ch. 10. Origen

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The Crossed Bones and Lady Liberty

The Cilician pirates incorporated significant divine feminine elements, notably Anahita, into their Mithraic practices, profoundly influencing the initiation rites within the Roman Empire.

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Casa del Mitreo

The name of this domus comes from the fact that some authors once associated one of its mosaics with the cult of Mithras, a connection that has since been dismissed.

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