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Your search Jean Genet gave 55 results.

 
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Base of Q. Muielius Iustus dedicated to the Genetrix from Trento

A square base found with its companion piece at Trento, dedicated to the Genetrix of the god in thanks for a birth by Q. Muielius Iustus and his family.

 
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Altar of Aurelius Statorius to Petra Genetrix from Schwadorf

Inscription from Schwadorf, ancient Aequinoctium in Pannonia Superior, dedicated to Petrae genetrici dei — the rock that gives birth to the god — by Aurelius Statorius.

 
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Altar to Petra Genetrix from Salona

Altar found at Salona, Dalmatia, in 1884, dedicated simply to Petrae genetrici — the rock that gives birth to the god.

 
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The Seventh Sinner

Jean Suttman’s study trip in Rome turns nightmarish when she discovers a murdered student in the Temple of Mithra and realizes someone is out to harm her.

 
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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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Publius Aelius Nigrinus

Priest of Mithras who dedicated an altar to Petra Genetrix in Carnuntum.

 
Notitia

Mithraism As Proud Boy Prototype: Underground Clubs of the Syndexioi and Pueri Superbi

Tracing the links between the cult of Mithras and the Proud Boys’ quest for identity, power, and belonging. How ancient rituals and brotherhood ideals resurface in radical modern movements.

 
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Petrogeny from Santo Stefano Rotondo

The sculpture of Mithras rock-birth from Santo Stefano Rotondo bears an inscription of Aurelius Bassinus, curator of the cult.

 
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Altar with Mithras rock-birth of Nida

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

 
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Bronze torchbearers from the Cabinet des Médailles

Pair of bronze torchbearer statuettes in Oriental dress from the Cabinet des Médailles, originally belonging to the same sculptural group.

 
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Chalcedony tauroctony gem from Paris

Fragment of yellowish chalcedony in the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris, formerly in the Millingen collection, depicting the standard tauroctony.

 
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Rock-crystal tauroctony gem from Paris

Rock-crystal gem in the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris, depicting Mithras as bull-slayer with the standard iconographic programme.

 
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Mithréum de Mackwiller

The Mackwiller Mithraeum was built in the middle of the 2nd century, during the reign of Antoninus the Pious, on the site of a spring already worshipped by the natives.

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Laurent Bricault

Professeur d’histoire romaine à l’Université de Toulouse Jean-Jaurès.

 
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Mithréum d’Angers

The Mithraeum of Angers, excavated during a preventive operation and subsequently dismantled in 2010, yielded numerous objects, including coins, oil lamps, and a ceramic vessel bearing a votive inscription to the invincible god Mithras.

 
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Funerary urn of Chyndonax

This funerary inscription, engraved on a stone urn discovered near Roman Dijon, mentions a certain Chyndonax, described as a priestly leader of Mithras.

 
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Head of Mithras from Mackwiller

This fragment of the head of a young Mithras is one of the finds made during the excavations carried out by Jean-Jacques Hatt at Mackwiller, France, in 1955.

 
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Marble statue of Cautopates from Ostia

This marble statuette from Ostia depicts Cautopates lowering his torch beside a tapering rock associated with Mithras’ birth from stone.

 
Notitia

Hekate: Magic, Mystery and the Liminal World

Lenni George on Hekate’s development across ancient traditions, from mystery cults to magical practice and philosophical thought.

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