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  • Liber

    Manuel d'Épictète (2000)

    Le Manuel (encheiridion) est ainsi intitulé parce qu'il doit toujours être « sous la main » et à la disposition de ceux qui veulent bien vivre. Car le poignard (encheiridion) du soldat est lui aussi une arme qui doit toujours être sous la main de ce…
  • Mithraeum

    Mithraeum of Caesarea Maritima

    This shrine developed towards the end of 2nd century and remained active until beginning 4th.

    TNMM33

  • Monumentum

    Altar of Firmidius Severinus from Geneva

    This limestone altar bears an inscription from its donor, Firmidius Severinus, in honour of Mithras after 26 years of service in the Legio VIII Augusta.

    TNMM599 – CIMRM 916

    Deo invicto / genio loci / Firmidius Se/verinus mi(les) /leg(ionis) VIII aug(ustae) p(iae) f(idelis) / c(onstantis) C(ommodae) stip(endiorum) XXVI aram / ex voto pro salute / sua v(otum) s(olvit) l(ib…
  • Mithraeum

    Mithréum de Mackwiller

    The Mackwiller Mithraeum was built in the middle of the 2nd century, during the reign of Antoninus the Pious, on the site of a spring already worshipped by the natives.

    TNMM68

  • Liber

    L'Art antique du Proche-Orient (1977)

    Pierre Amiet, L'Art antique du Proche- Orient. 1 vol. grand in-4° relié, avec jaquette couleurs. 158 planches couleurs, 823 figures en planches, 823 légendes, 601 pages. Septième titre de la collection l'Art et les grandes civilisations, Éditions M…
  • Mithraeum

    Mithraeum of Hawarti

    The Mithraeum of Hauarte or Hawarte, which preserves colourful frescoes, it's the latest know and used.

    TNMM221

  • Liber

    Il Mitreo dei Castra Peregrinorum (S. Stefano Rotondo) (1986)

    Lissa-Caronna details the excavation and findings of a mithraeum beneath San Stefano Rotondo, focusing on its decor, sculptures, and rituals.
  • Video

    Nymphus: Mithraic Initiation Rite Number Two

    This is a reconstruction of the 2nd level initiation, the Nymphus or male bride.
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Ottaviano Zeno

    In this relief of Mithras as bull slayer, recorded in 1562 in the collection of A. Magarozzi, Cautes and Cautopates have been replaced by trees still bearing the torches.

    TNMM125 – CIMRM 335

  • Monumentum

    Altar of Merida consecrated by Marcus Valerius Secundus

    This altar is dedicated to the birth of Mithras by a frumentarius of the Legio VII Geminae.

    TNMM338 – CIMRM 793

    Ann(o) Col(oniae) CLXXX / aram genesis / Inuicti Mithrae / M(arcus) Val(erius) Secundus / fr(umentarius) Leg(ionis) VII Gem(inae) dono / ponendam merito curauit / G(aio) Accio Hedychro patre.
  • Mithraeum

    Mithraeum of Lambaesis

    The Mithraeum of Tazoult / Lambèse is one of the best preserved Mithras’s temples in Africa.

    TNMM101

  • Monumentum

    Inscription of Chyndonax

    This inscription on an antique funeral urn mentions a certain high priest of Mithras.

    TNMM535 – CIMRM 934

    Μίθρης εν οργάδ[ι] χώμα το σώμα καλύπτει Χννδόνακτος ίερεω[ς] αρχηγού, δνσεβ(ίας) απέχον λύσι(ον) οίκον ὁρώ[ν].
  • Mithraeum

    Mithréum de Dyo

    A statue and a relief of Cautes have been found in an ancient Gallo-Roman site in the commune of Dyo.

    TNMM347

  • Mithraeum

    Mithréum de Valromey

    This temple of Mithras has been discovered under the Church in Vieux-en-Val-Romey, in 1869.

    TNMM295 – CIMRM 909, 910

  • Monumentum

    Persian plaque from the palace of Darius

    Located at the western entrance to the Palace of Darius in Persepolis, this tablet bears an inscription mentioning Ahuramazda and Mithra.

    TNMM362 – CIMRM 9

  • Monumentum

    Rock birth from St Aubin

    Mithras Petrogenitus from Saint-Aubin en France.

    TNMM230 – CIMRM 894

  • Liber

    L'Âne d'or ou Les Métamorphoses (2003)

    «Lecteur : attention tu ne t’ennuieras pas», nous prévient Apulée. Il était une fois un dénommé Lucius. Plutôt brave, un peu roublard. Notre Lucius, curieux de pénétrer les mystères de la magie, se retrouve transformé en âne, et bien des vi…
  • Liber

    Héliogabale et le sacre du soleil (1985)

    Un descendant de Bédouins fixés à Emèse, en Syrie, passe pour le fils adultérin d'un empereur assassiné. Il sert passionnément le culte d'un aérolithe qui passe pour figurer le soleil : Elagabal. Il continuerait volontiers à danser devant l'idole…
  • Liber

    Mithras-Orion. Greek Hero and Roman Army God (1980)

    The author of this ingenious memoir believes that the Greek myth of Orion is the very basis of Roman Mithriacism. His starting point is an astronomical interpretation of tauroctony.