The New Mithraeum Database

A.B. Candidate in Departments of History and Classics at Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)

Avant-propos Ce volume comprend, à côté de nombreux comptes rendus, regroupés dans le fascicule 2, une série de dossiers traitant de thèmes chers à la revue (l'Orient hellénisé), ou illustrant une approche pluridisciplinaire. Trois d'entre eux…

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.

Cumont Franz, Canet Louis. Mithra ou Sarapis ΚΟΣΜΟΚΡΑΤΩΡ. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 63ème année, N. 4, 1919. pp. 313-328.

Saul cutting the oxen to pieces poses as Mithras Tauroctonos in this painting, which adorns the mantelpiece of Henry II’s bedroom at the Château d’Écouen near Paris.

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This lamp, depicting a man slicing his victim into pieces with a sword, was believed to be associated with the Cult of Mithras.

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The Mithraeum of Tazoult / Lambèse is one of the best preserved Mithras’s temples in Africa.

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The Mithraic relief from Baris, in present-day Turkey, shows what appears to be a proto-version of the Tauroctony, with a winged Mithras surrounded by two Victories.

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The Mithraeum or Angers contained numerous objects, including coins, oil lamps and a ceramic vessel engraved with a votive inscription to the invincible god Mithras.

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

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The controversial Italian journalist Edmon Durighello discovered this marble statue of a young naked Aion in 1887.

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The Mithraeum of Sidon may have escaped destruction because the Mithras worshippers walled up the entrance to the underground sanctuary.

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The head of Mithras of Angers has been found a four months after the main relief.

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Some authors have speculated that the flying figure dressed in oriental style and holding a globe could be Mithras.

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