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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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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.

Syndexios

Hermadio

Hermadio's inscriptions have been found in Dacian Tibiscum and Sarmizegetusa, as well as in Rome.

Syndexios

Melichrisus

Slave of Philopalaestrus.

Syndexios

Lucius Agrius Calendius

Dedicated a floor mosaic to his god.

Socius

Ismael Wolf

 
Liber

I Misteri del Sole. Il culto di Mithra nell’Italia Antica

A study of Roman Mithraism that combines historical evidence with a symbol-centred interpretive approach, exploring Mithraic iconography, ritual experience, and the cult’s encounter with Christianity in the Late Empire.

 
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Il dio splendente. I Misteri romani di Mithra fra Oriente e Occidente

A study that re-examines Roman Mithraism through epigraphic evidence and comparative analysis, exploring its links with Orphism, Platonism, and Iranian traditions, and presenting the cult of Mithras as a solar path of individual spiritual awakening between East and West…

 
Liber

La via della realizzazione di sé secondo i Misteri di Mithra

Interprets Mithraism as an initiatory path of inner transformation, reading its myths and rites as symbolic maps of consciousness rather than as historical narratives, and includes an appendix with the Ritual of Mithra from the Great Magical Papyrus of Paris…

 
Textum

Notes on a new Cautes statue from Apulum (jud. Alba / RO)

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.

 
Locus

Maros Porto

Sighișoara is a municipality on the Târnava Mare River in Mureș County, central Romania.

 
Monumentum

Altar of Dioscorus from Alba Iulia

In 1852, Károly Pap, a naval captain, unearthed several Mithraic monuments in his garden at Marospartos, including this altar.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 411

Triangular marble slab (H. 0.39 Br. 0.30 D. 0.03), found in the Forum of Nerva.

 
Locus

Portus

Portus was a large artificial harbour of Ancient Rome.

 
Monumentum

Album of Portus

This marble tablet found at Portus Ostiae mentions a pater, a lion donor and a series of male names, probably from a Mithraic community.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 646

CIL XI 3865; MMM II No.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 645

Marble statue (H. 0.65), found at Torrita near Nazzano in the beginning of the 19th century.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 644

Franz Cumont drew our attention to a statue, found along the Via Cassia (Clodia) about six kilometers from Rome.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 643

Fragment of a white marble relief (H. 0.267 Br. 0.25 D. 0.06-0.035).

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 642

Fragment of a white marble relief (H. 0.40 Br. 0.36 -0.10 D. 0.037-0.06), found together with the following No.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 640

I mention a note of E.

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