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Locus

Mendes (Tell el-Rub’a)

Mendes was a famous city that attracted the notice of most ancient geographers and historians, including Herodotus, Diodorus, Strabo, Mela, Pliny the Elder, Ptolemy, and Stephanus of Byzantium. The city was the capital of the Mendesian nome.

Monumentum

Mithraeum of Tell Atchana

Subterranean sanctuary at ancient Atchana tentatively interpreted by Woolley as an early precursor to later Mithraic temples.

Scriptum

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The M Rites — seven musical reflections on the Mithraic mysteries Hello everyone, Andreu kindly invited me to share this work here, so I thought I would introduce it by saying a little more about the ideas behind it…

Notitia

A name older than Greece

On what Hekate’s name may or may not tell us, and why the uncertainty matters.

Socius

Ruben Liefers

Monumentum

Figure fragment from the banquet scene at Dura-Europos

Fragment of a figure dressed like Mithras in the banquet scene, found in the rubble of the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria.

Monumentum

Red-lettered altar from Mainz

Ara litteris rubricatis from Mainz, ancient Mogontiacum, dedicated to Deo invicto Mithrae, with the dedicant's name only partly legible

Monumentum

Mithra’s statue from Boztepe Hill

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.

Monumentum

Mercury of Groß-Gerau

The statue was dedicated to Mercury Quillenius, an epithet used to refer to a Celtic god or the Greek Kulúvios.

Monumentum

Tauroctony from Mithras and Tellus

This tauroctony relief is distinguished by the rare depiction of Tellus reclining beneath the bull.

Monumentum

Inscription of Tellius Agatho in Mitreo delle Sette Sfere

This inscription found in the Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres mentions the Pater Marco Aemiliio Epaphrodito known from other monuments in Ostia.

Textus

Re-thinking sacred 'rubbish': the ritual deposits of the temple of Mithras at Tienen (Belgium)

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