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The New Mithraeum Database

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

Your search Philippe Roy gave 179 results.

 
Monumentum

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.

 
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.

 
Textum

De Iside et Osiride

Of Isis and Osiris or Of the Ancient Religion and Philosophy of Egypt, Plutarch, The Moralia.

 
Textum

Thebaid

The scholiast Lactantius Placidus comments on Statius’ passage identifying the Sun as Titan, Osiris, and Mithras, interpreting the Persian cave figure with the bull.

 
Monumentum

Niasar Cave

The Niasar Cave, غار نیاسر, was a temple probably devoted to Iranian Mithras that dates back to the early Partian era.

 
Monumentum

Mitreo de Lugo

The exploration of an old pazo, a manor house, near the Roman wall, in Lugo, led to the discovery of a Roman domus, which existed continuously from the beginnings of the Christian Era until the Late Empire.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony from Antium

This marble relief depicting Mithras killing the bull, found at Porto d’Anzio in 1699 and now lost, is known from a engraving by del Torre.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 123 124

Two marble statues (H. 0.63; 0.60).

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 122

Fragment of a white marble statue of Mithras killing the bull from Rusicade, today Skikda, Algeria.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony from Mile, Jajce

This marble relief depicting Mithras as a bull-slayer was once owned by Major Holzhausen and Franz Cumont and is now housed at the Belgian Academy.

 
Notitia

Mithraism As Proud Boy Prototype: Underground Clubs of the Syndexioi and Pueri Superbi

Tracing the links between the cult of Mithras and the Proud Boys’ quest for identity, power, and belonging. How ancient rituals and brotherhood ideals resurface in radical modern movements.

 
Monumentum

Mitreo di Santa Maria Capua Vetere

The Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere preserves frescoes depicting several scenes of the initiation rites.

 
Notitia

The Mirror of Mithras

Over the last century or so, a great deal has been said about the god Mithras and his mysteries, which became known to the European world mainly through his Roman cultus during the Imperial Period.

 
Monumentum

Altar of Carnuntum by the Augusti and Caesares

Altar with Cautes and Cautopates dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras as protector of the Tetrarchy in 3rd-century Carnuntum.

 
Monumentum

Medallions with Mithras from Trapezus

These bronze medallions associates the image of several Roman emperors with that of Mithras, usually as a rider, in the province Pontus.

 
Monumentum

Mithras on a horse

This small bronze statuette of Mithras riding a horse is composed of two pieces.

 
Monumentum

Mitreo dels Munts

The Mithraeum of Els Munts, near Tarragona, is one of the largest known to date.

 
Monumentum

Mithraeum of Dura Europos

The most emblematic of the Syrian Mithraea was discovered in 1933 by a team led by the Russian historian Mikhaïl Rostovtzeff.

 
Notitia

On the Cave of the Nymphs

Translation and Introductory Essay by Robert Lamberton. Station Hill Press Barrytown, New York 1983.

 
Monumentum

Mithräum II von Güglingen

Two Mithras sanctuaries, which were located on the edge of the settlement, were excavated in Güglingen.

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