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The New Mithraeum Database

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Call for PhD students and post-doctoral fellows specialising in Mithras

On the occasion of the exhibition, the Royal Museum of Mariemont invites five experts from Europe to emulate the research on the cult of Mithras.

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The Mystery of Mithras: Exploring the heart of a Roman cult

Three European museums celebrate Mithras with a continental exhibition featuring more than 200 works of art from Roman times to the present day.

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Dancing out the Mysteries of Dionysos

Peter Mark Adams: ‘The initiation was a frightening experience that caused some people to panic as a flood of otherworldly entities swept through the ritual space.’.

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Los Misterios de Mitra - Mitraísmo Romano

Video report in Spanish on Mithraism.

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Ara of the Mithraeum of Lugo

Victorius Victorious, centurion of the Legio VII, erected the altar in honour of the Lugo garrison and of the Victorius Secundus and Victor, his freedmen.

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Altar by Valerius Maximianus from Lambaesis

Limestone altar dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras by the governor and military commander Marcus Valerius Maximianus.

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Junia Zosime

Junia Zosime is known from an inscription discovered at Ostia recording the donation of a silver statue of the Virtus of the dendrophori.

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Gaius Valerius Nicomedes

Ostian sacerdos remembered through his participation in the dedication of the monumental leontocephalic image erected under Commodus in 190 CE.

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Gaius Iulius

Recipient of a votive dedication invoking the healing protection of Deus Invictus in the Mithraic community of Emerita Augusta.

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Tiberius Claudius Artemidorus

The pater Artemidorus seems to be an Augustan freedman of the Claudians, of Eastern origin.

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Gaius Curius Avitus

Member of the Mithraic congregation of Emerita Augusta who commissioned a monumental torchbearer statue under Accius Hedychrus.

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Gaius Camilius Superatus

Gaius dedicated an altar to the god Invictus in Emerita Augusta in the 2nd century.

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Marcus Valerius Secundus

Centurio frumentarius probably from Tarraco, who served in the Legio VII Gemina located in Emerita Agusta.

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Claudius Zenobius

Procurator of Tarraconensis, he dedicated a monument to the Invincible God, Isis and Serapis in Asturica Augusta.

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Pattie L

Owner of the Facebook group: Roman Cult of Mithras: His Mysteries, Mithraea and Worship. Owner of the blog: Meals with Mithras VERY into the subject.

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Gaius Accius Hedychrus

Gaius Accius Hedychrus was one of the most prominent Mithraists known from Roman Hispania and a central figure in the Mithraic community of Emerita Augusta during the mid-second century CE.

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Quintus Mamilius Capitolinus

Severan governor and commander of Legio VII Gemina, associated with the religious milieu that fostered the rise of Mithraic communities in north-western Hispania.

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Sextus Pompeius Maximus

Sextus Pompeius Maximus was an Ostian pater, later honoured as pater patrum, whose benefactions transformed the Aldobrandini Mithraeum and linked him to the city’s ferry guilds.

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Lucius Agrius Fructosus

Patron of the corpus stuppatorum and benefactor who financed the construction of the Mithraeum of Fructosus at Ostia.

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Lucius Sempronius

Offered a throne to Sol god in Ostia.

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