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Chris Huff

Archaeologist, would be historian, Psychic, published Author, Tea Drinker and Motorcycle Rider.

 
Notitia

Mithras in Africa

In his first book, Fahim Ennouhi sheds light on the cult of Mithras in Roman Africa. A marginal and elitist phenomenon, confined to restricted circles and largely absent from local religious dynamics, yet revealing.

 
Monumentum

Mithréum de Septeuil

In the second half of the 4th century, a Mithraic temple was established within an earlier spring sanctuary at Septeuil, where the cult of the nymphs and Mithraic practices appear to have coexisted.

 
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Aion from Ciciliano

Gold lamina from Ciciliano showing a nude, serpent-entwined Aion-Kronos holding a key and surrounded by Greek voces magicae (2nd c. CE).

 
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CIMRM 108

Statue of a standing person in eastern attire in red, local limestone with inscription.

 
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Mithraeum of Cirta

An inscription mentioning a speleum decorated by Publilius Ceionius suggests the location of a mithraeum in Cirta, the capital of Numidia.

 
Monumentum

Mithraeum of Skikda

Many of the inscriptions and sculptures of the site were kept in a museum which has been destroyed.

 
Video

The Mystery Cult of Mithras by Peter Mark Adams & Andreu Abuín

Acclaimed esoteric scholar @peter.mark.adams talks about his latest book, ‘Ritual and Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras’, interviewed by professor, writer and host of The New Mithraeum podcast @andreu.abuin.

 
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Mithraeum of Lambaesis

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

 
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Frescoes from the tomb of Aelius Magnus and Aelia Arisuth in Oea

The Mithraic nature of the frescoes of Oea, according to the scholars Cumont and Vermaseren, is now questioned.

 
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Saul depicted as Mithras Tauroctonos

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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Mithraeum of Sofia

The Mithraeum of Serdica was found in the fortified area of the ancient city of Serdica, now Sofia, Bulgaria.

 
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Denarius depicting Mithras rock-birth of St. Albans

The mithraic denarius of St. Albans dates from the 2nd century.

 
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Aion of Orazio Muti

This monument has been identified from ’Memorie di varie antichità trovate in diversi luoghi della città di Roma’, a book by Flaminio Vacca of 1594.

 
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Column of Callimorphus

Callimorphus dedicated this image of the sun god to the invincible sun ’Mythra’.

 
Notitia

Life around the world’s largest Mithras temple revealed at Doliche

Archaeologists at Doliche are now excavating houses around the vast Mithras temple to learn how people lived beside the sanctuary.

 
Monumentum

Intaglio of Abraxas and Mithras

Gnostic amulet found in the ancient Agora of Athens, depicting Abraxas on one side and a Mithraic inscription on the other.

 
Textum

Life of Pompey

Passage from Plutarch’s Life of Pompey, recounting the rise, power, and insolence of the Cilician pirates before Pompey’s campaign to suppress them.

 
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Base with inscription of Priscus Eucheta to Navarze

This inscription, which doesn’t mention Mithras, was found near the church of Santa Balbina on the Aventine in Rome.

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