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The New Mithraeum Database

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Your search Sidon gave 26 results.

 
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Hekataion of Sidon

The Hekataion of Sidon shows a triple Hekate surrounded by three dancing nymphs.

 
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Mithraeum of Sidon

The Mithraeum of Sidon may have escaped destruction because the Mithras worshippers walled up the entrance to the underground sanctuary.

 
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Taurcotony sculpture from Sidon

The Mithras killing the bull sculpture from Sidon, currently Lebanon.

 
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La date du mithréum de Sidon

Les monuments mithriaques sont rares en Syrie. Les sculptures de Sidon, datées de 188, constituent l’essentiel de la documentation malgré des incertitudes sur leur origine exacte.

 
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Cautopates of Sidon

Cautopates sculpture of Sidon features a snake near his left leg.

 
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Lion-headed Aion from Sidon

The controversial Italian journalist Edmon Durighello discovered this marble statue of a young naked Aion in 1887.

 
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Tauroctony relief of Sidon

The tauroctony relief of Sidon depicts the signs of the zodiac and the four seasons, among other familiar features.

 
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Bronze Venus of Sidon

There are two Venus from the Mithraeum of Sidon, one in bronze and the other in Parian marble.

 
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Cautes of Sidon

The Sidon sculpture includes a dog jumping between Cautes's legs.

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Flavius Gerontios

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

 
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Sidon

Alexander the Great seized Sidon from the Persians in 333 BC. It became a Roman colony during the reign of Elagabalus.

 
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Note from Franz Cumont on Sidon discoveries

The following note deserved an entry in Vermaseren’s Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae.

 
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Cautes with an axe

The Cautes of Sidon who wields an axe also wears a piece of cloth on his left arm.

 
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Second Cautes of Sidon holding an axe

In this case, a quiver has been attached to the tree-stump behind the torchbearer.

 
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Los templos del dios Mitra en el Imperio romano

Este es un libro que pretende esbozar un panorama general de los documentos mitraicos repartidos a lo largo del Imperio romano.

 
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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.

 
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Mithras platonicus. Recherches sur l'hellénisation philosophique de Mithra

Robert Turcan highlights various examples of the philosophical interpretation, mainly Platonic, of the figure and cult of Mithras.

 
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Mithraeum of Sarmizegetusa

The large number of monuments found at the Mithraeum of Sarmizegetusa and the sheer size of the temple are unusual.

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