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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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Flavius Aper altar (CIMRM 1584)

The altar of Ptuj depicts Mithras and Sol on the front and the water miracle on the right side.

 
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Tauroctony from Mauls

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull at Mauls in Gallia cisalpina is a paradigmatic example of the so-called Rhine-type Tauroctony.

 
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Mithräum von Ober-Florstadt

Mithraeum discovered in 1887–1888, located about 85 m north of the castellum at Ober-Florstadt, built on a hillside with a central aisle, benches, and an altar podium.

 
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CIMRM 2196 & 2197

White marble relief depicting Mithras as bull-slayer in a grotto from the Froehner collection, now in the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris.

 
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Tauroctony from Santa Prisca

Even if only a few fragments remain, it is very likely that the main niche of the Mitreo di Santa Prisca contained the usual representation of Mithras killing the bull.

 
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Julian on Mithras

In these passages from his hymns and satires, Julian articulates a solar theology in which Helios governs cosmic order and time. Within this framework, Mithras appears as a personal divine guide associated with the ascent of souls.

 
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Gregory of Nazianzus on rites, tortures and orgies

A series of polemical passages in which a leading fourth-century Christian theologian presents the cult of Mithras as a religion defined by cruelty, bodily suffering, and shameful initiation rites.

 
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Notes on a new Cautes statue from Apulum (jud. Alba / RO)

The article examines two recently discovered Mithraic representations of Cautes from Alba Iulia, focusing on a rare iconographic type showing the torchbearer with a bucranium.

 
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Mithréum de Vienne

Emperor Julian may have been initiated into the cult of the god Mithras at the Mithraeum of Vienne, France, according to Turcan.

 
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Tauroctony on display in Boston

This fragmentary relief depicts Mithras killing the bull in the usual manner, remarkably dressed in oriental attire.

 
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Mitreo della Crypta Balbi

The Mithraeum of the Crypta Balbi was locted in the middle of a densely populated insula near the theatre of Cornelius Balbus.

 
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Mitreo di San Clemente

The Mithraeum under the Basilica of San Clemente made part of a notable Roman house.

 
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Tertullian on Mithras

In polemical passages from the late second and early third centuries, Tertullian portrays the cult of Mithras as a demonic imitation of Christian rites and provides rare early references to Mithraic initiation and ritual symbolism.

 
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Trapezus

Trabzon is a historic city on the Black Sea coast of northeastern Turkey, founded in 756 BC as Trapezous by Greek colonists from Miletus. It passed from Achaemenid control to the Kingdom of Pontus, then became part of the Roman and Byzantine empires.

 
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Tauroctonia de Walbrook

The image of Mithras killing the bull, found near Walbrook, is surrounded by a Zoadiac circle.

 
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At the Seizure of the Moon: The Absence of the Moon in the Mithras Liturgy

Radcliffe G. Edmonds III analyses the absence of the moon in the Mithras Liturgy. He argues that this absence reflects a deliberate cosmological framework in which lunar powers linked to genesis are excluded from the ritual of ascent.

 
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Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World

This collective volume explores the ways ancient peoples interacted with divine powers through prayer, magic, and the interpretation of the stars. Drawing on evidence from Mesopotamia to Late Antiquity, it situates these practices within broader religious and cosmological systems…

 
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The “Mithras Liturgy”. Text, Translation, and Commentary

A critical edition of the Mithras Liturgy (PGM IV.475–834), providing the Greek text, English translation, commentary, and an updated discussion of its interpretation since Albrecht Dieterich’s 1903 edition.

 
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Legion of Lust

A erotic military fantasy set against the dramatic background of Rome’s conquest of the British Isles.

 
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Mithras. Typengeschichtliche Untersuchungen

Fritz Saxl interprets Mithraism primarily through its images, proposing the cult as a visual cosmology structured around the descent, sacrifice and re-ascent of light, developed in close dialogue with Aby Warburg and Erwin Panofsky.

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