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This limestone statue of Cautes is now exposed at Great North Museum of Newcastle.
Pons Aelius, or Newcastle Roman Fort, was an auxiliary castra and small Roman settlement on Hadrian's Wall in the Roman province of Britannia Inferior, situated on the north bank of the River Tyne close to the centre of present-day Newcastle upon Tyn
One of the three altars to Mithras found at the Mithraeum of Carrawburgh fort.
One of the three altars to Mithras found at the Mithraeum of Carrawburgh fort.
The Housesteads Mithraeum is an underground temple, now burried, discovered in 1822 in a slope of the Chapel Hill, outside of the Roman Fort at the Hadrian's Wall.
Base of a Venus-statuette (H. 0.135 Br. 0.075); only the feet and on the right side a jug, upon which a cloth, have been preserved.
Founder of the Arasacid dynasty, Tiridates I was crowned king of Armenia by Nero in 66.
An oval carnelian gem from Carnuntum showing Mithras tauroktonos in a grotto. Sol and Luna appear above, with both torchbearers and a small altar before the bull.
Tribune of the first cohort of Vardulli, he erected a mithraeum with his fellows in Brementium.
Roman emperor and philosopher known for his attempt to restore Hellenistic polytheism.
This unusual piece depicts Mithras slaying the bull on one side and the Gnostic god Abraxas on the other.
At Rome’s twilight, amid political upheaval and Christian ascendancy, Vettius Agorius Praetextatus embodied pagan intellect, virtue, and authority across senatorial, military, and mystical spheres.
By reading Orphic theology together with Eleusinian ritual practice, the mysteries emerge as a structured mystagogy of transformation: a disciplined passage from forgetfulness (Lethe) to knowledge (aletheia), from mortality to participation in the divine.
This article revisits the Mithraeum of S. Maria Capua Vetere, one of the most complete and artistically refined Mithraic sanctuaries in the Campanian region, situating it within its archaeological, iconographic, and ritual-historical contexts.
This limestone relief of Mithras killing the bull bears an inscription by a certain Flavius Horimos, consecrated in a ’secret forest’ in Moesia.
The relief of Dieburg shows Mithras riding a horse as main figure, surrounded by several scenes of the myth.
This marble relief, found in Sisak, Croatia, shows Mithras killing the bull in a circle of corn ears, gods and some scenes from the Mithras myth.
