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The New Mithraeum Database

Find news, articles, monuments, persons, books and videos related to the Cult of Mithras

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Études Mithriaques. Actes du 2e Congrès International, Téhéran, du 1er au 8 septembre 1975

Actes du 2e Congrès International, Téhéran, du 1er au 8 septembre 1975. (Actes du Congrès, 4). Éditions Brill, collection. Acta Iranica.

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The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire. Mysteries of the Unconquered Sun

Roger Beck describes Mithraism from the point of view of the initiate engaging with the religion and its rich symbolic system in thought, word, ritual action, and cult life.

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Mithriaca IV. Le Monument d'Ottaviano Zeno et le culte de Mithra sur le Célius

Ce 4e fascicule de Mithriaca concerne un très curieux monument exhumé au XVIe siècle sur le site d'un Mithraeum qu'on localise tout près de l'église S. Maria in Domnica, non loin de S. Stefano Rotondo où un autre spelaeum fut mis au jour en 1973…

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Mithriaca III. The Mithraeum at Marino

This magnificently illustrated publication renews the Mithraic dossier on the basis of concrete data, with caution and penetration. Marino's discovery is disconcerting and rekindles the controversy about the order in which bands should be read.

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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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Joseph Filardo

Commercial translator, freemason, edito of the blog bibliot3ca.com

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Publilius Ceionius Caecina Albinus

Vir clarissimus and governor of Numidia, who dedicated a temple to Mithras with its images and ornaments in Cirta.

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Veturius Dubitatus

Veteran and ex duplicarius of ala I civum Romanorum who dedicated an altar to Mithras in Teutoburgium.

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Marcus Licinius Ripanus

Prefect, probably of Cohors II Tungrorum, who dedicated an altar to the invincible sun god Mithras in Camboglanna, Britannia.

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Χρῆστος

Chrestos was a Pater who dedicated a relief to Mithras with his comrade Gauros.

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Marcus Simplicius Simplex

Equus and Prefect.

Monumentum

Aion found in the Tiber

Fragment of a white statue depicting a naked god entwined by a serpent with its head on his chest, found in the River Tiber.

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Tauroctony on display at the Getty Museum

This fragmentary scupture of Mithras killing the bull belongs to the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA.

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Re-interpreting the Mysteries of Mithras

Ernest Renan suggested that without the rise of Christianity, we might all have embraced the cult of Mithras. Nevertheless, it has had a lasting influence on secret societies, religious movements and popular culture.

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#168

Habesne paululum temporis?

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Aion of Vienne

The relief of Aion from Vienne includes a naked youth in Phrygian cap holding the reins of a horse.

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Tauroctony from Arshawi-Kibar

This relief of Mithras as bull slayer is surrounded by Cautes and Cautopates with their usual torch plus an oval object.

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Matthew Meisch

I study because not enough do.

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The Mithreaum of Lugo reveals the expansion of the Persian cult to the boundaries of Hispania

The museum that houses the temple of Mithras has become the most visited Roman space in the city since it opened.

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