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The New Mithraeum Database

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Your search Ruse gave 16 results.

Locus

Ruše (Ruše)

Ruše is a small town in northeastern Slovenia.

Locus

Sexantaprista (Ruse)

Sexantaprista occupied a strategic position on the southern bank of the lower Danube.

Monumentum

Tauroctony from Ruše

This relief of Mithras tauroctonus and other finds were discovered in 1845 in Ruše, where a Mithraeum probably existed.

Monumentum

Tauroctony statue fragment from Rusellae

A white marble statue fragment from Rusellae in Etruria, now in the Museum of Grosseto, preserving the upper body of Mithras tauroctone with the head and neck of a different marble; both legs, the left arm and the right arm from the elbow are lost.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief with uplifted torches from Ruše

Weathered marble tauroctony relief in two fragments from Ruše, Noricum, depicting the bull-slaying with only the dog visible, flanked by two torchbearers both holding their torches upraised; no Sol or Luna.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief with pensive Cautopates from Ruše

Marble tauroctony relief from Ruše, Noricum, showing a grotto scene in which Cautopates holds the torch downward against the rocky ground and supports his head with his left hand in a pensive attitude; the upper left corner preserves a bust of Sol.

Monumentum

Weathered tauroctony relief from Ruše

Small marble tauroctony relief from Ruše, Noricum, badly weathered, depicting the bull-slaying in a grotto-like niche with cross-legged torchbearers on bases.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief with long-necked bull from Ruše

Small marble tauroctony relief from Ruše, Noricum, depicting Mithras killing the bull in a grotto, notable for the unusually elongated neck of the bull; dog and serpent approach the wound, and the raven perches above.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Sexantaprista

Marble tauroctony relief in five fragments from Ruse, ancient Sexantaprista in Moesia Inferior, found near the confluence of the river Lom with the Danube, depicting the standard bull-slaying.

Locus

Rusellae (Roselle)

Rusellae was an important ancient town of Etruria, Italy, which survived until the Middle Ages before being abandoned.

Socius

Søren Kruse

Syndexios

Marcus Porcius Verus

Procurator of the emperor, Porcius Verus erected a relief of Mithras found in Ruše, Slovenia..

Liber

The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire. Mysteries of the Unconquered Sun

Roger Beck describes Mithraism from the point of view of the initiate engaging with the religion and its rich symbolic system in thought, word, ritual action, and cult life.

Textum

Réfutation des sectes

Deux extraits rapportés par Eznik de Goghp, Ve siècle, sur la création du Soleil selon les mythologies des mages.

Syndexios

Chyndonax (Χυνδόναξ)

The cenders of Chyndonax were found on an urn with an inscription that reads High Priest of Mithras.

Notitia

Mithras in India and Iran

We propose to revisit a passage by the prolific author Marteen Vermaseren that highlights correspondences today forgotten between the Roman Mithras and its Eastern counterparts.

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