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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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Flavius Gerontios

Pater nominos in Sidon, he consecrated a number of sculptures, including a Hecataion.

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Agatho

Agatho has dedicated several monuments to Mithras in the Coelian Hill.

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Mercatorius Castrensis

Offered the famous Tauroctony of Osterburken to the unconquerable sun god Mithras.

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Titus Aurelius Marcus

Veteran of the legion XIII and member of the Fabia tribe.

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Marcus Aurelius Frontinianus

Frontinianus and Fronto built a Mithraeum in Budaors, probably on their own property.

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Valerius Florus

Governor of Numidia in 303, vir perfectissimus Valerius Florus was a well-known persecutor of Christians.

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Victorinus

Slave of the imperial family and dispensator who repaired an image of Mithras in Tibur, near Rome.

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Doryphorus

Doryphorus gave his grade and name in a monumental candalabrum found in Rome.

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A. Sergius Eutychus

Pater Sacrorum at Mithraeum Circo Massimo.

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Nicephoros

One of the lions mentioned on the Santa Prisca procession fresco.

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Marcus Antonius Victorinus

A powerful and wealthy man, founder of a mithraeum in the city of Aquincum of which he was the mayor.

 
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Proposal of a Mithraic ritual based on archaeological remains

Dominique Persoons proposes a reconstruction of Mithraic ritual based on archaeological remains, frescoes, and zodiacal symbolism. He interprets the mithraeum as a liturgical microcosm governing the descent, purification, and ascent of souls.

 
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A Man of the Gods and Mysteries. On Vettius Agorius Praetextatus

At Rome’s twilight, amid political upheaval and Christian ascendancy, Vettius Agorius Praetextatus embodied pagan intellect, virtue, and authority across senatorial, military, and mystical spheres.

 
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CIMRM 1640

Two limestone sculptures depicting a recumbent lion and a lioness stood near the entrance of the Mithraeum of Fertőrákos, positioned at the threshold of the sanctuary.

 
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Mithraeum of Fertőrákos

The temple of Mithras in Fertorakos was constructed by soldiers from the Carnuntum legion at the beginning of the 3rd century AD.

 
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Inscription of Santi Marcellino e Pietro al Laterano

This inscription mentions a Pater for the first known time.

 
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The Golden Chain of Initiation: Orphism, Eleusis, and Mystagogy—A Reinterpretation

By reading Orphic theology together with Eleusinian ritual practice, the mysteries emerge as a structured mystagogy of transformation: a disciplined passage from forgetfulness (Lethe) to knowledge (aletheia), from mortality to participation in the divine.

 
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Genuflect

A dark occult novel intertwining Templar mythology, ritual magic, and modern conspiracy, with Mithraic and gnostic motifs woven into its esoteric narrative. It explores the persistence of hidden initiatory currents in the contemporary world.

 
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Michelangelo’s Puzzle. Forgery, Star Maps, and the Sistine Chapel

Rebecca Jelbert explores Michelangelo’s major works through the lens of hidden structures, symbolic systems, and esoteric traditions. It considers how themes associated with Mithras and other mystery cults may illuminate new interpretative possibilities within Renaissance art…

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