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The New Mithraeum Database

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

Your search Lenni George gave 71 results.

 
Locus

Neapoli

Naples has been inhabited since the Neolithic Age. In the 2nd millennium BC, the Mycenaeans settled in the area. During the Roman period, Naples maintained its Greek language and customs, and greatly expanded.

 
Locus

Marino

Marino has been inhabited by Latin tribes since the 1st millennium BC. During the Roman Republic it was a summer resort for Roman patricians who built luxurious villas in the area.

 
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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The Mirror of Mithras

Over the last century or so, a great deal has been said about the god Mithras and his mysteries, which became known to the European world mainly through his Roman cultus during the Imperial Period.

 
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Re-interpreting the Mysteries of Mithras

Ernest Renan suggested that without the rise of Christianity, we might all have embraced the cult of Mithras. Nevertheless, it has had a lasting influence on secret societies, religious movements and popular culture.

 
Notitia

On the Cave of the Nymphs

Translation and Introductory Essay by Robert Lamberton. Station Hill Press Barrytown, New York 1983.

 
Monumentum

Intaglio with Tauroctony from The Met

This small magical jasper gem shows Sol in a quadrigra on the recto and Mithras as a bull slayer on the verso.

 
Monumentum

Mithraeum of Rožanec

According to Hitzinger remnants of animal bones were found in front of the relief of the Mithraeum at Rozanec.

 
Monumentum

Mithraeum of Caernarfon

The Mithraeum of Caernarfon, in Walles, was built in three phases during the 3rd century, and destroyed at the end of the 4th.

 
Video

Explore the Mithras Temple of Jajce (Jace i Mitras)

Video reportage about the city and the Mithraeum of Jajce.

 
Monumentum

Lion from Les Bolards

A limestone lion holding a flowing urn, discovered at the entrance of the Mithraeum of Les Bolards, reflects the ritual significance of water within the cult of Mithras.

 
Monumentum

Cautes from Les Bolards

This monument representing Cautes with uncrossed legs was consecrated by a certain Anttiocus.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 927

Fragment of limestone from Porêts, which was used in the 4th century.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 964

Mouth of a fountain (H. 0.10 Br. 0.09) and a square spout and other fragments of round spouts.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 963

Fragments of a bronze vase (H. 0.07) with two ears, one of which is broken off.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 962

Two fragments of a bronze statuette.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 961

Cylindrical bronze peg (diam. 0.18) with a lion's head in the middle.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 960

Bronze statuette (H. 0.12 Br. 0.17) with the representation of a lion with opened mouth, in which is a hole, connecting with another hole, made in the stomach.

 
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CIMRM 959

Bronze statuette (H. 0.18), representing a standing, naked youth, wearing a necklace and with outstretched hands.

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