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The New Mithraeum Database

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Monumentum

Cautes of Sidon

The Sidon sculpture includes a dog jumping between Cautes's legs.

Video

Des images mithriaques à l’époque médiévale ?

Intervention de Nicolas Amoroso, commissaire de l’exposition Le Mystère Mithra.

Video

Présentation de l'exposition du Musée Saint-Raymond de Toulouse

Mithra et ses actualités - Journée d'études (17 décembre 2021) au Musée royal de Mariemont.

Monumentum

Aesculapius of Merida

This standing sculptural figure from Mérida appears to carry the serpent staff, characteristic of the medicine god Aesculapius.

Monumentum

Mithras Petrogenitus of Alba Iulia

Mithras born from the rock with a snake raising in coils around it.

Monumentum

Consecration for Jupiter and Hercules

This marble relief was found in a Mithraeum in Ptuj.

Monumentum

Gemme with Mithras killing the bull

Imprint on glass of a Tauroctony exposed at Winckelmann Museum.

Video

Reconstructing the Roman Mystery Religion of Mithras

Our modern understanding of Mithraism, though, depends largely on a few short (and very problematic) literary mentions, mostly written by the cult’s Christian rivals.

Notitia

Porphyry’s Cave of Nymphs and the Cult of Mithras

Between the 1st and 4th centuries, Mithraism developed throughout the Roman world. Much material exists, but textual evidence is scarce. The only ancient work that fills this gap is Porphyry’s intense and complex essay.

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Castle and Mithraeum of Zerzevan candidate to World Heritage

The Temple of Mithras, inside an ancient military settlement, is situated on the eastern border of the Roman Empire.

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Los dioses de Egipto y Persia que los romanos honraron en Lucus Augusti

La Domus de Mitreo y el Centro Arqueolóxico de San Roque muestran otra cara del viejo Lugo

Notitia

Raised by Wolves: Mithraism and Sol Explained

HBO Max's sci-fi series Raised By Wolves features a religious faction that references Sol and the Mithraic Mysteries. Here are the real-world Roman concepts the show borrowed from.

Notitia

Reconstructed Roman Temple of Mithras opens to public in London

Visitors to new museum will uncover mystery cult of Mithras the bull slayer in multi-sensory experience.

Socius

Theodore Papadopoulos

Prophet of Mithras | Glory to the Father of our Fathers

Syndexios

Tiberius Claudius Balbillus

Scholar, astrologer, imperial administrator and trusted adviser to the emperors Claudius, Nero and Vespasian.

Monumentum

Small relief of primitive Tauroctony at Museo Capitolino

Small marble relief from the Aventine showing a primitive representation of Mithras slaying the bull, without torchbearers or Sol and Luna.

Monumentum

Seal of King Šauštatar of Mitanni

Royal Mitannian seal featuring a winged solar emblem and heroic combat scenes from the cultural milieu in which the earliest attestation of Mitra is found.

Liber

El culto de Mitra en Hispania

A comprehensive reassessment of the introduction, development and early decline of Mithraism in Roman Hispania, combining socio-historical analysis with the most complete catalogue of Hispanic Mithraic evidence currently available.

Syndexios

Lucius Valerius Monteius

A Mithraic worshipper whose dedication to Cautes preserves a distinctive epigraphic tradition associated with the coastal communities of north-eastern Hispania.

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