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Two extracts from De abstinentia ab esu animalium by Porphyry on sacrifices and the importance of abstinence from animal food among Persian Magi.
Two excerpts from the ’Life of Commodus’ in Lampridius’ Historia Augusta, dating from the 4th century CE.
Quaestiones veteris et novi testamenti, 113.11. Ambrosiaster, 5th cent.
The vault of the Mithraeum in S. Capua Vetere is decorated with stars that have holes in their centers, which once held colorful glass decorations.
Fragments of a marble relief of Sol, which probably served as a fenster.
This bronze arm, with stars and a swastika, was once thought to be part of a Mithras statuette but has since been dismissed as unrelated to the Mithras cult.
This marble slab bears an inception be the Pater Proficentius to whom Mithras has suggested to build and devote a temple.
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.
This remarkable marble statue of Mithras killing the bull from Apulum includes a unique dedication by its donor, featuring the rare term signum, seldom found in Mithraic contexts.
Porphyry states that the Mithraists “perfect their initiate by inducting him into a mystery of the descent of souls and their exit back out again, calling the place a ‘cave’.”.
This is the first known inscription that includes Phanes alongside Mithras found in a Mithraic context.
This eulogy of Saint Eugene of Trapezos tells how, in the time of Diocletian, he and two other Christian fellows destroyed a statue of Mithras.
This cylindrical marble altar was dedicated by the same Pater Proficentius as the slab, both monuments found in the Mithraeum beneath the Basilica of San Lorenzo.
This sandstone altar found in Cologne bears an inscription to the goddess Semele and her sisters.
This marble monument was dedicated in Rome by the slave Fructus and his son Myro.
Aemilius Chrysanthus shares the expenses of this monument with a decurio named Limbricius Polides.
This altar, dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras by a certain Eutyches for the health of the Emperor Caracalla, was found in Sisak, Croatia, in 1899.
The dedicator of this monument is also known for having made a tauroctonic relief in Nesce.
This altar to the god Sol invicto Mithra was erected by a legate during Maximin’s reign in Lambaesis, Numidia.
Ernest Renan suggested that without the rise of Christianity, we might all have embraced the cult of Mithras. Nevertheless, it has had a lasting influence on secret societies, religious movements and popular culture.
