The New Mithraeum Database

Terracotta krater from the southern part of the Friedberg Mithraeum, discovered in 1849. The vessel is decorated in relief with serpents, a scorpion and a ladder-like motif.

There have probably been three mithraea discovered at Friedberg.

In Letter 107 to Laeta, Jerome combines a pastoral reflection on conversion with an account of the urban prefect Gracchus, who ordered the destruction of a Mithraic cave in Rome, listing the seven grades of initiation associated with the cult.

This tauroctony may have come from Hermopolis and its style suggests a Thraco-Danubian origin.

A series of polemical passages in which a leading fourth-century Christian theologian presents the cult of Mithras as a religion defined by cruelty, bodily suffering, and shameful initiation rites.

The article examines two recently discovered Mithraic representations of Cautes from Alba Iulia, focusing on a rare iconographic type showing the torchbearer with a bucranium.

Emperor Julian may have been initiated into the cult of the god Mithras at the Mithraeum of Vienne, France, according to Turcan.

The Mithraeum of the Crypta Balbi was locted in the middle of a densely populated insula near the theatre of Cornelius Balbus.

The Mithraeum under the Basilica of San Clemente made part of a notable Roman house.

This tauroctony relief is distinguished by the rare depiction of Tellus reclining beneath the bull.

The image of Mithras killing the bull, found near Walbrook, is surrounded by a Zoadiac circle.

Radcliffe G. Edmonds III analyses the absence of the moon in the Mithras Liturgy. He argues that this absence reflects a deliberate cosmological framework in which lunar powers linked to genesis are excluded from the ritual of ascent.

A erotic military fantasy set against the dramatic background of Rome’s conquest of the British Isles.

Cet ouvrage propose une étude d’ensemble du culte de Mithra en Afrique romaine. S’appuyant sur un rigoureux examen croisé des sources épigraphiques, archéologiques et littéraires, il restitue l’histoire et les spécificités de ce culte à mystères sur le sol africain…

Robert Turcan présente les dévotions immigrées dans le monde romain, sans négliger les cultes marginaux ou sporadiques, traitant également des courants gnostiques, occultistes et théosophiques.

Este es un libro que pretende esbozar un panorama general de los documentos mitraicos repartidos a lo largo del Imperio romano.

India, beyond all other countries on the face of the earth, is preeminently the home of the worship of the Phallus—Linga puja. It has been so for ages and remains so still.

L'école mithriaque représente, à nos yeux, une source riche et féconde d'enseignements relatifs à la conduite de la vie. Il nous a semblé aussi que la psychothérapie actuelle se trouverait enrichie par l'étude des données des "psychodrames"…

A conversation between Peter Mark Adams and Christophe Poncet on the esoteric tarot, in relation to the elite and Saturnian Sola-Busca tarocchi and the popular and luminous Tarot de Marseille.

Ce livre présente les religions de la Méditerranée ancienne – grecque, romaine, phénicienne et punique, hébraïque et juive, mésopotamienne, égyptienne – en mouvement. Au fur et à mesure de ces histoires de dieux en voyage…