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  • Notitia

    Reconstructed Roman Temple of Mithras opens to public in London

    Visitors to new museum will uncover mystery cult of Mithras the bull slayer in multi-sensory experience.
  • Locus

    Londinium

    Londinium was the capital of Roman Britain for most of the period of Roman rule. It was originally a settlement founded around 47-50 AD in an uninhabited area.
  • Notitia

    A mithraic ritual

    Preamble and notes published by G. R. S. Mead in his series Echoes from the Gnosis 1907, London and Benares. Translation of the manuscript by Dieterich Eine Mithrasliturgie 1903, Leipzig.
  • Syndexios

    Ulpius Silvanus

    Soldier recruited in Arausio (Orange), emeritus of the Legion II Augusta.
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony in the British Museum

    The sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull was transported from Rome to London by Charles Standish in 1815.

    TNMM328 – CIMRM 592

  • Monumentum

    Mithras Tauroctony and other figures from Palæographia Britannica

    Palæographia Britannica: or, discourses on antiquities that relate to the history of Britain. Number III.

    TNMM247

  • Syndexios

    Aurelius Hermodorus

    Praeses of the Noric Mediterranean province, of equestrian rank, restaured the Mithraeum of Virunum in 311.
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctonia de Walbrook

    The image of Mithras killing the bull, found near Walbrook, is surrounded by a Zoadiac circle.

    TNMM120 – CIMRM 810, 811

    Ulpius Silvanus / factis Arausione / emeritus leg(ionis) II aug(ustae) / votum solvit.
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony medallion of Transylvania

    This medallion belongs to a specific category of rounded pieces found in other provinces of the Roman world.

    TNMM430 – CIMRM 2187

  • Monumentum

    Bronze inscription from Aldobrandini

    This plaque, now on display in the British Museum, may have come from the Aldobrandini Mithraeum in Ostia.

    TNMM119 – CIMRM 234, 235

    SEX POMPEIO SEX FIL / MAXIMO / SACERDOTI SOLIS IN / VICTI MT PATRI PATRVM / QQ CORP TREIECT TOGA / TENSIVM SACERDO / TES SOLIS INVICTI MT / OB AMOREM ET MERI /TA EIVS SEMPER HA / BET
  • Liber

    Mystai. Dancing out the Mysteries of Dionysos (2019)

    The Dionysian themed frescos of Pompeii’s Villa of the Mysteries constitute the single most important theurgical narrative to have survived in the Western esoteric tradition.
  • Monumentum

    Altar to Luna from Gimmeldingen

    This sandstone altar was dedicated to Luna, who is mentioned as a male deity.

    TNMM711 – CIMRM 1321

  • Monumentum

    Fragments of a column base from Hamadan

    The base of the column bears an inscription that records the rebuilding of a palace at Ectabana 'by the favour of Ahuramaza, Anahita and Mithra'.

    TNMM127 – CIMRM 8

  • Monumentum

    Intaglio with Mithras and Abraxas at the Walters Art Museum

    This unusual piece depicts Mithras slaying the bull on one side and the Gnostic god Abraxas on the other.

    TNMM544 – CIMRM 2364

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  • Monumentum

    Mercury of Mérida

    The statue of Mercury in Merida bears a dedication from the Roman Pater of a community in the city in 155.

    TNMM394 – CIMRM 780, 781

    Ann(o) col(oniae) CLXXX / invicto deo Mithrae / sacr(um) / G(aius) Accius Hedychrus / Pater / a(nimo) (libente) plosuit).
  • Monumentum

    Head of Minerva from London

    This head was found at the east end of temple of Mithras in London.

    TNMM351

  • Monumentum

    Busto de Livia

    TNMM109

  • Video

    Nymphus: Mithraic Initiation Rite Number Two

    This is a reconstruction of the 2nd level initiation, the Nymphus or male bride.
  • Socius

    Behzad BOLOUR

    TV senior producer Presenter