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The New Mithraeum Database

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Your search Tal hal Hariri / Es-Sâlihiyeh / As Salhiyah gave 2481 results.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 108

Statue of a standing person in eastern attire in red, local limestone with inscription.

 
Monumentum

Cultores Inscription from Tiddis

Inscription recording the dedication of a mithraeum at Tiddis by a group of cultores who built the sanctuary at their own expense.

 
Monumentum

Mithraeum of Tiddis

The Mithraeum was housed in a cave. The vault is almost dome-shaped and in front of the cave there is enough space for a possible adjacent temple.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony on display in Virginia

Rich relief on display at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art showing Mithras sacrificing the bull accompanied by Cautes and Cautopates.

 
Textum

Against the errors of the profane religions

Mithras the Cattle-Rustler: The Persian Cult of Fire as Divided into Sexed Powers and the Hidden Cave Rites of the Magi.

 
Textum

Life of Pompey

Passage from Plutarch’s Life of Pompey, recounting the rise, power, and insolence of the Cilician pirates before Pompey’s campaign to suppress them.

 
Textum

Réfutation des sectes

Deux extraits rapportés par Eznik de Goghp, Ve siècle, sur la création du Soleil selon les mythologies des mages.

 
Textum

Thebaid

The scholiast Lactantius Placidus comments on Statius’ passage identifying the Sun as Titan, Osiris, and Mithras, interpreting the Persian cave figure with the bull.

 
Textum

De fluviis

Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis. Goodwin, Ed. Plutarch. Plutarch’s Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press of John Wilson and son.

 
Notitia

De fluviis

Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis. Goodwin, Ed. Plutarch. Plutarch’s Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press of John Wilson and son.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Fleischmann Collection

This relief of Mithras killing the bull includes an unusual owl at the feet of Cautopates and a cock next to Cautes.

 
Notitia

Contra Celsum

229 A.D. The passage quoted is from the sixty-third book, ch. 10. Origen

 
Monumentum

Mithraeum of Duhok

There is no solid evidences of the finding of a Mithraic temple in Duhok, Iraq.

 
Monumentum

London Mithraeum

The Mithraeum of London, also known as the Walbrook Mithraeum, was contextualised and relocated to its original site in 2016.

 
Monumentum

Head of Antiochus I of Commagene

This monumental head of Antionchus I of Commagene is in Nemrut Dağı together with other representations of the Greco-Iranian king.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony from the Mithräum von Heddernheim

This relief is so well-known that it has been reproduced in nearly every handbook of archaeology and of history of religions.

 
Monumentum

Cautopates of Sidon

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

 
Monumentum

Two-sided relief from Rückingen

This remarkable double-sided relief depicts the myth of Mithras and the Tauroctony on one side, and a scene of Mithras the hunter and the banquet of Mithras and the Sol on the other.

 
Video

The Cult of Mithras, Freemasonry, and Initiatic Orders

Conference by Freemason Chris Ruli on the parallels between the cult of Mithras, Freemasonry and other initiatic orders.

 
Monumentum

Altar by Caius Aemilius Superaius of Merida

Small white marble altar made in honour of Mithras found at San Albín, Mérida.

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