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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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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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Le dieu mithriaque léontocéphale

Le groupe caractéristique « lion, serpent, cratère » marque le rapport avec le culte mithriaque, car comme nous croyons l’avoir montré, ce groupe ne symbolise pas la lutte des éléments, terre, eau et feu, mais la participation des animaux-attributs au sacrifice, par Mithra…

 
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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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Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae

Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae (or CIMRM) is a two volume collection of inscriptions and monuments relating primarily to the Mithraic Mysteries.

 
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Anazarbus

Anazarbus was an ancient Cilician city. Under the late Roman Empire, it was the capital of Cilicia Secunda.

 
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Nemrut Dağı

Mount Nemrut or Nemrud is a 2,134-metre-high mountain in southeastern Turkey, notable for the summit where a number of large statues are erected around what is assumed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BC.

 
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Salona

Salona was an ancient city and the capital of the Roman province of Dalmatia. It was founded in the 3rd century BC and was mostly destroyed in the invasions of the Avars and Slavs in the 7th century AD.

 
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Ostia

Ostia may have been Rome's first colony. According to legend, Ancus Marcius, the fourth king of Rome, destroyed the area and founded the colony. An inscription seems to confirm the foundation of the ancient castrum of Ostia in the 7th century BC.

 
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Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa

Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augusta Dacica Sarmizegetusa was the capital and the largest city of Roman Dacia, later named Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa after the former Dacian capital, located some 40 km away. The city was destroyed by the Goths.

 
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Aion of Skikda

The lion-headed figure from Rusicade, now Skikda, holds a key in both hands and features a pine cone beside his feet.

 
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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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