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The New Mithraeum Database

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Interpreting the Ponza Zodiac

Roger Beck revisits the zodiac circle of the Mithraeum on the island of Ponza, a composition unique within the Mithraic corpus. His reading places the monument in relation to cosmology, ritual space, and Mithraic doctrine.

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Aelius Maximus

Aelius Maximus identifies himself as a soldier of the Legio V Macedonica on a relief found in ancient Potaissa.

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Thrasyllus of Mendes

Thrasyllus was an Egyptian of Greek descent grammarian, astrologer and a friend of the Roman emperor Tiberius.

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Symphorus

Dedicated a sculpture of Mithras killing the bull in the 4th mithraeum of Aquincum together with Marcus.

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Gaius Aufidius Ianuarius

Donor of the monumental Borghese relief.

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Vettius Agorius Praetextatus

One of the most eminent representatives of late antique pagan religiosity, combining high civic authority with deep initiation into multiple mystery traditions, including the cult of Mithras.

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Zenobios

Commander of the archers at Dura Europos, he financed the second Tauroctony.

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Χρῆστος

Chrestos was a Pater who dedicated a relief to Mithras with his comrade Gauros.

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Guntha

Together with two other brothers, he offered a relief of the tauroctony in Rome.

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Lucius Antonius Menander

He was from Aphrodisias in Caria, where he erected a relief depicting Mithras killing the bull.

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Aurelius Eutyches

Imperial slave who donated an altar to Mithras for the benefit of the emperor Caracalla.

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Marcus Umbilius Kriton

Patronus of the corpus lenunculariorum tabulariorum auxiliariorum Ostiensium.

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Marcellinus

Marcellinus was an antistes who reached the grade of Leo in Rome.

 
Notitia

Hekate: Magic, Mystery and the Liminal World

Lenni George on Hekate’s development across ancient traditions, from mystery cults to magical practice and philosophical thought.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 485

A set of painted Latin hymns and ritual acclamations survives on the walls of the Mithraeum of S. Prisca, accompanying scenes of leones and the sacred meal.

 
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Altar by Septimius Zosimus from Roma

This altar dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras by a certain Septimius Zosimus was found in the Basilica of San Martino ai Monti in Rome.

 
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Mitreo di Santa Prisca

The Mithraeum of Santa Prisca houses remarkable frescoes showing the initiates in procession.

 
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CIMRM 1019

Fragment of an alabaster relief from Cologne with part of a tauroctony scene. Only the tip of Mithras’ Phrygian cap and small narrative details above are preserved.

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