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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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Vasio (Vaison-la-Romaine)

Vaison-la-Romaine is a town in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. Vaison-la-Romaine is famous for its rich Roman ruins and mediaeval town and cathedral. The old town is split into two parts: the

Notitia

The Mysteries of Mithras

The Mysteries of Mithras is an independent Initiatic Order which is inspired by and uses the allegory of the lost and ancient Mithraic Mysteries also known as Mithraism a previously influential Roman Cult of the same name.

Notitia

Mithraism As Proud Boy Prototype: Underground Clubs of the Syndexioi and Pueri Superbi

Tracing the links between the cult of Mithras and the Proud Boys’ quest for identity, power, and belonging. How ancient rituals and brotherhood ideals resurface in radical modern movements.

Monumentum

Tauroctony from Golubić

This relief of Mithras as a bullkiller was found in Golubić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, near a cementery.

Monumentum

Tauroctony medallion of Transylvania

This medallion belongs to a specific category of rounded pieces found in other provinces of the Roman world.

Notitia

The Golden Ass: Book XI

The concluding book of Apuleius’ Golden Ass (or Metamorphoses), where Lucius, the story’s protagonist, undergoes initiation into the mysteries of Isis and Osiris.

Monumentum

Altar of Sextus Cornelius Antiochus from Salona

Altar from Salona, Dalmatia, found in 1884, dedicated by Sextus Cornelius Antiochus to Soli deo, who donated both a star and a fructifera — interpreted as Sol and Luna — following a vision.

Monumentum

Altar of Fortunatus for Pamphilus from Salona

Altar from Salona, Dalmatia, with a bust of Sol in radiate crown in the lower portion, dedicated to Deo invicto for the welfare and safety of Pamphilus, imperial dispensator, by his arkarius Fortunatus.

Monumentum

Altar to Petra Genetrix from Salona

Altar found at Salona, Dalmatia, in 1884, dedicated simply to Petrae genetrici — the rock that gives birth to the god.

Monumentum

Inscription to Mithras and the gods from Salona

Inscription from a house staircase at Salona, Dalmatia, dedicated to Deo Mithrae invicto and all the other immortal gods by a dedicant whose name ends in -elius.

Monumentum

Sol bust fragment from Salona

Left upper corner of a white marble relief from Salona, Dalmatia, found in 1895, preserving the bust of Sol in radiate crown.

Monumentum

Building inscription fragment from Salona

Fragmentary inscription from Salona, Dalmatia, preserving only the phrase impendio suo — probably recording a building act.

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