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  • Syndexios

    Tiridates I

    Founder of the Arasacid dynasty, Tiridates I was crowned king of Armenia by Nero in 66.
  • Liber

    Ritual & Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras (2025)

    The Secret Cult of Saturn in Imperial Rome.
  • Liber

    The Mithras Conspiracy (2019)

    Followers of a revived version of Mithraism in contemporary Italy threaten to overthrow the government and destroy the Vatican. Rome is in chaos. Earthquakes shake the city. The Pope is in a coma.
  • Liber

    Legion of Lust (2004)

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

    The Seventh Sinner (1972)

    Jean Suttman’s study trip in Rome turns nightmarish when she discovers a murdered student in the Temple of Mithra and realizes someone is out to harm her.
  • 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.
  • 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…
  • Monumentum

    Base with inscription of Priscus Eucheta to Navarze

    This inscription, which doesn’t mention Mithras, was found near the church of Santa Balbina on the Aventine in Rome.

    TNMM653 – CIMRM 501

    Invicto d(eo) Navarze / Terentius Priscus / P(ublii) f(ilius) / Eucheta curante / et sacratis / d(onum) d(edit) c(ompos) b(oti).
  • Monumentum

    Two figures relief from Via Zanardelli

    Marble relief, probably found in Rome during the construction of the Palazzo Primoli along the Via Zanardelli.

    TNMM997 – CIMRM 419

  • Monumentum

    Altar of Lucretius Mnester and Aemilius Philetus

    This marble altar was found ’in the street called di Branco’, behind the palace of the Cardinal of Bologna, in Rome.

    TNMM785 – CIMRM 517

    Deo / invicto / Mithrae / C(aius) Lucretius Mnester / M(arcus) Aemilius Philetus / summag(istri) anni primi / M(arcus) Aemili Chrysanti / d(e) s(uo) d(onum) d(ederunt).
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Aula Gotica

    What appears to be a representation of Mithras killing the bull appears in the 12th century frescoes of the Basilica dei Santi Quattro Coronati in Rome.

    TNMM762

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony relief found between Porta Portese and St Pancrace

    Franz Cumont bought this relief of Mithras as a bullkiller from a dealer who claimed to have found it in a vineyard near the church of Saint Pancrace, in Rome.

    TNMM671 – CIMRM 585

  • Monumentum

    Inscription of Aurelius Mithres

    This monument, found in the Domus Flavia in Rome, bears an inscription by a certain Aurelius Mithres.

    TNMM630

    [Aurel]ius / Mithres / Aug(usti) l(ibertus) strator / Serapi d(onum) d(edit).
  • Monumentum

    Relief of Jupiter, Juno and Minerva

    This marble relief bears an inscription by Marcus Modius Agatho, who dedicated several monuments to Mithras on the Caelian Hill in Rome.

    TNMM597 – CIMRM 328, 329

    Opt[i]mus maximus / Caelus aeternus Iup[i]/ter Iunoni Reginae / Minervae iussus liben[s] / dedit pro salutem suam / M(arcus) Modius Agatho et pr[o] / Fausti patroni hominis s(ancti?) / et Helpidis sua…
  • Monumentum

    Altar by Hermanio of Poetovio

    A certain Hermanio has been identified in the dedication of several monuments in different cities in Dacia and even in Rome.

    TNMM581

    Cauti // pro salute Fl(avi) / Hermadionis / et Aviti Syriac(i) / et filiorum / Felix libert(us)
  • Mithraeum

    Mitreo della Piazza Dante

    The Mithraeum located in Piazza Dante in Rome was discovered in 1874 along with a series of monuments dedicated by a Pater named Primus.

    TNMM379 – CIMRM 349

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony in the British Museum

    The sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull was transported from Rome to London by Charles Standish in 1815.

    TNMM328 – CIMRM 592

  • Mithraeum

    Mitreo del Campidoglio «lo perso»

    This temple of Mithras on the north side of the Capitoline Hill in Rome no longer exists.

    TNMM24 – CIMRM 414

  • Monumentum

    CIMRM 116

    Giacomo Caputo writes us about an inscription, discovered at the Roman Fort of Bu-Ngem by the British School at Rome: "e su chiave d'arco".

    TNMM855 – CIMRM 116

  • Monumentum

    CIMRM 599

    White marble statue (H. 0.29), bought by Gerhard in Rome.

    TNMM1113 – CIMRM 599

 
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