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The New Mithraeum Database

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Your search Mark Alwin Hoffman gave 135 results.

 
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Mithras rock-birth of Mithraeum III, Ptuj

Cautes and Cautopates attend the birth of Mithras from the rock in the Petrogenia of the third Mithraeum of Ptuj.

 
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Cautes of Trier

This remarkable relief by Cautes was found in what appears to be a mithraeum in Trier.

 
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Mithraeum of the Baths of Caracalla

The Mitreo delle terme di Caracalla is one of the largest temples dedicated to Mithras ever found in Rome.

 
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Mithras in Hispania

On the occasion of the discovery of a Mithraeum in Cabra, Spain, we talk to Jaime Alvar, a leading figure in the field of Mithraism. With him, we examine the testimonies known to date and the peculiarities of the cult of Mithras in Hispania.

 
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Hyenas or Lionesses? Mithraism and Women in the Religious World of the Late Antiquity

In this article, Chalupa examines the scant evidence that has been found for the presence of women in the Roman cult of Mithras.

 
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Album of Sentinum

This inscription reveals the names of 36 cultori of Sentinum, one of whom bears the title of pater leonum.

 
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Inscription of Victorinus from Tibur

This tabula marmorea was consecrated by a certain slave Vitorinus in Tibur, nowadays Tivoli, near Rome.

 
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Tauroctony on altar of Ptuj

Remarkable fragmentary sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull on an inscribed altar found in Mithraeum III at Ptuj.

 
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Mithräum von Künzing

The Mithraeum of Kunzing was an underground building, oriented east-west. The entrance was probably on the east.

 
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Altar with inscription from Baetulo

This altar was dedicated to Cautes by a certain Lucius in Baetulo (Badalona), near Barcino (Barcelona).

 
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Mercury of Mérida

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

 
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Tauroctony stele of Nicopolis ad Istrum

The Tauroctony of Nicopolis ad Istrum is unique as it is the only Mithraic stele befitting a Greek donor.

 
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A man is initiated into the Mysteries of Mithras

This is the first of several fresco scenes depicting the initiation of a new member in a mithraic community, in Capua Vetere.

 
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Mitreo della Planta Pedis

The floor of the central aisle of the Mithraeum of the Footprint in Ostia has a mosaic depicting a snake and a footprint.

 
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Mithraeum of Kapıkaya

Mithras became the main deity worshipped in the sanctuary of Meter in Kapikaya, Turkey, in Roman times, at least until the fourth century.

 
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Altar dedicated by Pater Patrum Augentius

This altar, now lost, mentions that the Pater Patrum passed on the attributes of the sacred Corax to his son.

 
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Mitreo Fagan

The Mitreo Fagan revealed remarkable sculptures of leon-headed figures now exposed at the Vatican Museum.

 
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Tauroctony relief of Sarmizegetusa

This relief of Mithras slaying the bull incorporates the scene of the god carrying the bull and its birth from a rock.

 
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Feast scene with Mithras and Sol from Ladenburg

A naked Sol leans over his fellow Mithras while raising his drinking-horn during the sacred feast.

 
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Relief of a round platter with food of Ladenburg

The iconography of the platter of Ladenburg might evoke the food consumed during Mithraic banquets.

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