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The floor of the central aisle of the Mithraeum of the Footprint in Ostia has a mosaic depicting a snake and a footprint.
Mithras became the main deity worshipped in the sanctuary of Meter in Kapikaya, Turkey, in Roman times, at least until the fourth century.
This altar, now lost, mentions that the Pater Patrum passed on the attributes of the sacred Corax to his son.
The Mitreo Fagan revealed remarkable sculptures of leon-headed figures now exposed at the Vatican Museum.
This relief of Mithras slaying the bull incorporates the scene of the god carrying the bull and its birth from a rock.
The iconography of the platter of Ladenburg might evoke the food consumed during Mithraic banquets.
Mithras born from the rock with a snake raising in coils around it.
The head was part of a stucco relief of the Tauroctony found under the church of Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome
In the tauroctony of Jabal al-Druze in Syria, the snake appears to be licking the head of the bull's penis.
Three European museums celebrate Mithras with a continental exhibition featuring more than 200 works of art from Roman times to the present day.
Between the 1st and 4th centuries, Mithraism developed throughout the Roman world. Much material exists, but textual evidence is scarce. The only ancient work that fills this gap is Porphyry’s intense and complex essay.
Twelve centuries separate the decline of Roman Mithraism from the dawn of Freemasonry. Twelve centuries during which the mysteries of Mithras have remained more secret than ever.
The Mithraeum of Cyrene is preserved among the remarkable ruins of the ancient capital of the Roman province of Cyrene.
Founded on the site of ancient Byzantium and refounded in 330 CE, Constantinopolis became an imperial residence in the eastern Roman Empire. In the 4th century, it was a key setting for interaction between traditional cults and Christian authority.
