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  • Liber

    Les Contes du labyrinthe (1990)

    Cinq contes, situés dans la région du Latium, au sud de Rome, sont réunis sous ce titre. Figure tutélaire de l’œuvre de Daniélou, le labyrinthe est également le nom du lieu-dit où il élut domicile à son retour en Occident. La dominante auto…
  • Syndexios

    Lucius Agrius Calendius

    Dedicated a floor mosaic to his god.
  • 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.
  • Monumentum

    CIMRM 595

    Bronze statuette of Mithras in his characteristic bull-slaying pose, though only the god has been preserved.

    TNMM1111 – CIMRM 595

  • Monumentum

    Aion of Villa Albani

    White marble statue of Lion-head god of time, formerly in the Villa Albani, nowadays in the Musei Vaticani.

    TNMM123 – CIMRM 545

  • Monumentum

    Aion of Mitreo Fagan

    The marble Aion from the lost Mithraeum Fagan, Ostia, now presides the entrance to the Vatican Library.

    TNMM116 – CIMRM 312, 313

    C. Valeri/us Heracles pat(er) / et C(aii) Valerii / Vitalis et Nico/mes sacerdo/tes s(ua) p(e)c(unia) p(o)s(ue)r(unt). / D(e)d(icatum) idi(bus) aug(ustis) im(peratore) / Com(odo) / VI et / Septi/miano…
  • Monumentum

    CIMRM 418

    Reperta in ascensu Capitolii.

    TNMM996 – CIMRM 418

    Soli sacr(um) / C. Ducenius / C(aii) lib(ertus) Phoebus / filius Zenonis / natus in Suria / Nisybin liber / factus Romae / ex visu / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito).
  • Monumentum

    Procession Fresco from Santa Prisca

    Figures in procession, each representing a different grade of Mithraic initiation, labeled with their respective titles.

    TNMM115 – CIMRM 480

    Nama [patribus] / ab oriente / ad occidente(m) / tutela Saturni. [Na]ma H[eliodromis] / tute[l]a S[ol]is. [Na]ma Persis / tutela [Mer]curis. Nama L[e]on[i]b[us] j tutela Iovis. Nama Militibus j tutela…
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of the Mitreo delle terme di Mitra

    The person who commanded the sculpture may have been M. Umbilius Criton, documented in the Mitreo della Planta Pedis.

    TNMM108 – CIMRM 230, 231

    Κρίτων / Ἀθηναιος / έποίει.
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony marble from Mitreo Fagan

    This sculpture of Mithras killing the bull was dedicated to the ’incomprehensible god’ by a certain priest called Gaius Valerius Heracles.

    TNMM106 – CIMRM 310, 311

    Sig(num) imdeprehensivilis dei G(aius) Valerius Heracles sacerdos s(ua) p(ecunia) p(osuit). L(ucius) Sextius Karus et.
  • Monumentum

    Frescoes with standing figures of Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte

    The frescoes depict several figures dressed in different garments associated with the Mithraic degrees.

    TNMM104 – CIMRM 268

  • Monumentum

    Busto de Livia

    Lead.

    TNMM109

  • Monumentum

    Frescoes of lions at Santa Prisca

    Procession of Leones carrying animals, bread, a krater, and other objects in preparation for a feast.

    TNMM498 – CIMRM 481, 482

    Nama Nicephoro leoni; nama Theodoro leoni. Nama Hel[io]doro leoni; Nama Gelasio leoni; Nama Phoebo leoni.
  • Monumentum

    CIMRM 597

    Fragment of a greyish marble relief depicting Mithras slaying the bull beneath a rocky grotto.

    TNMM1112 – CIMRM 597

  • Monumentum

    CIMRM 615

    Roman stone low-relief depicting Mithras as a bull-slayer, with the upper part of his head missing.

    TNMM1123 – CIMRM 615

  • Monumentum

    CIMRM 496

    Upper part of a goddess Fortuna of marble from Luna.

    TNMM1048 – CIMRM 496

  • Mithraeum

    Zeus Brontoon sanctuary near Villa dei Quintili

    Mithras and other oriental gods were worshipped in the shrine of Zeus near the Villa of the Quintilians in Rome.

    TNMM370 – CIMRM 634

  • Monumentum

    CIMRM 639

    Marble cippus with inscription.

    TNMM1145 – CIMRM 639

    Deo Soli envicto Mithre / Cautopati. . . . .. / D(eo) S(oli) e(nvicto) M(ithre) / Flavius .... / ...... / an. XIII. ... / cum omne . . . . / .... posuerunt.
  • Monumentum

    CIMRM 635

    Fragment of a marble relief (H. 0.27 Br. 0.38 D. 0.045).

    TNMM1141 – CIMRM 635

 
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