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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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Locus

Septeuil

Septeuil has been known in Mithriacism since 1984, when a sanctuary dedicated to Mithras was discovered in the 4th century. It was located in a spring sanctuary (nymphaeum) of the 1st century.

 
Scriptum

#363

I am honored to present my first book devoted to the cult of Mithras in ancient North Africa. Structured into four main sections, it also features a catalogue of twenty inscriptions and twenty-six illustrative plates…

 
Notitia

Mithras in Africa

In his first book, Fahim Ennouhi sheds light on the cult of Mithras in Roman Africa. A marginal and elitist phenomenon, confined to restricted circles and largely absent from local religious dynamics, yet revealing.

 
Monumentum

Mithraeum of Tiddis

The Mithraeum was housed in a cave. The vault is almost dome-shaped and in front of the cave there is enough space for a possible adjacent temple.

 
Monumentum

Mithraeum of Cirta

An inscription mentioning a speleum decorated by Publilius Ceionius suggests the location of a mithraeum in Cirta, the capital of Numidia.

 
Monumentum

Mithraeum of Skikda

Many of the inscriptions and sculptures of the site were kept in a museum which has been destroyed.

 
Monumentum

Altar by Celsianus from Lambaesis

This altar found in Lambèse, now Tazoult, Algeria, bears the inscription of a certain Celsianus for the health of two men to the god Sol Unconquered Mithras.

 
Video

The Mystery Cult of Mithras by Peter Mark Adams & Andreu Abuín

Acclaimed esoteric scholar @peter.mark.adams talks about his latest book, ‘Ritual and Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras’, interviewed by professor, writer and host of The New Mithraeum podcast @andreu.abuin.

 
Monumentum

Mithraeum of Lambaesis

The Mithraeum of Tazoult / Lambèse is one of the best preserved Mithras’s temples in Africa.

 
Monumentum

Frescoes from the tomb of Aelius Magnus and Aelia Arisuth in Oea

The Mithraic nature of the frescoes of Oea, according to the scholars Cumont and Vermaseren, is now questioned.

 
Monumentum

Mithraeum of Sofia

The Mithraeum of Serdica was found in the fortified area of the ancient city of Serdica, now Sofia, Bulgaria.

Socius

John Cardoza

BA in History,Santa Clara University MA in History, Arizona State University JD University of California,Davis

 
Textum

Life of Pompey

Passage from Plutarch’s Life of Pompey, recounting the rise, power, and insolence of the Cilician pirates before Pompey’s campaign to suppress them.

 
Monumentum

Mithräum von Saalburg

In the 1900s a model Mithraeum was built in Saalburg in the mistaken belief that there was an original temple of Mithras in an ancient Roman building.

 
Scriptum

#322

Join us for a special webinar with professor, writer and host of The New Mithraeum podcast @andreu.abuin, interviewing acclaimed esoteric scholar @peter.mark.adams on his ground breaking latest book, Ritual and Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras…

 
Video

Le culte de Mithra [3D] - Les Nocturnes du Plan de Rome - 06 nov. 2019

Le culte de Mithra : Une religion iranienne qui se répand à Rome et dans son empire.

 
Textum

De Iside et Osiride

Of Isis and Osiris or Of the Ancient Religion and Philosophy of Egypt, Plutarch, The Moralia.

 
Textum

Discourse on the doctrines and practices of the magi

Dion Chrysostom, c. 100 A.D., a philosophical writer under the emperors Nerva and Trajan, composed a series of discourses or essays (λόγοι) on various subjects, in one of which he reports concerning the doctrines and practices of the magi.

 
Monumentum

Mithraeum of Crimea

The site of Ay-Todor in Crimea revealed a Roman camp, a temple with votive offerings, and a Mithraeum.

 
Monumentum

Iron sword and crown of Güglingen

Several iron fragments found in the second mithraeum of Güglingen may have been used during mithraic ceremonies.

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