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Excerpted from Mushroom, Myth and Mithras, this passage elaborates on the Mithraic ritual and the degree of Nymphus.
Laurent Bricault has revolutionised Mithraic studies with the exhibition The Mystery of Mithras. Meet this professor in Toulouse for a fascinating look at the latest discoveries and what lies ahead.
This magnificent candelabrum was found in Rome in 1803, in the Syrian Temple of Janicule.
This medallion belongs to a specific category of rounded pieces found in other provinces of the Roman world.
This white marble relief of Mithas killing the sacred bull was found embedded in the building of a noble family in Pisa.
The concluding book of Apuleius’ Golden Ass (or Metamorphoses), where Lucius, the story’s protagonist, undergoes initiation into the mysteries of Isis and Osiris.
The relief of Mithras killing the bull of Stefano Rotodon preserves part of his polycromy and depicts two unusual figures: Hesperus and an owl.
This inscription reveals the names of 36 cultori of Sentinum, one of whom bears the title of pater leonum.
PhD Thesis by Vittoria Canciani, coordinated by A. Mastrocinque. Verona, 14th April 2022.
One of the altars from the Carrawburgh Mithraeum depicts the bust of Mithras or Sol.
This altar was dedicated by a son to his father, one of the few Patres Patrum recorded in the western provinces.
The lack of attributes and its decontextualisation prevent us from attributing a specific Mithraic attribution to this small Venus pudica from Mérida.
The Mithraeum of Vulci is remarkable because of his high benches and the arches below them.
The ancient Roman worshippers were likely in altered states of consciousness.
On the walls of the side-benches originally six figures had been painted (see fig. 192, C).
The frescoes depict several figures dressed in different garments associated with the Mithraic degrees.
A bearded Bacchus and another hermes as a woman, both crowned with vine tendrils, were walled into the base of a niche.
