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Philippopolis (Plovdiv)

Plovdiv is the second-largest city in Bulgaria, standing on the banks of the Maritsa river in the historical region of Thrace, behind the state capital Sofia.

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Aion gold figurine from Geneva

This small golden figurine seems to represent the Mithraic god Aion, as usual surrounded by a serpent.

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The Golden Chain of Initiation: Orphism, Eleusis, and Mystagogy—A Reinterpretation

By reading Orphic theology together with Eleusinian ritual practice, the mysteries emerge as a structured mystagogy of transformation: a disciplined passage from forgetfulness (Lethe) to knowledge (aletheia), from mortality to participation in the divine.

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Heracles captures the Golden Hind of Artemis

Relief of Heracles/Hercules capturing the Golden Hind of Artemis.

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A name older than Greece

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

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Questions on the old and new testaments

Quaestiones veteris et novi testamenti, 113.11. Ambrosiaster, 5th cent.

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The 'Mithraeum' at Burham, Kent: A New Interpretation of an Old Problem

Presentation of the so-called Mithraeum of Burham by Mark Samuel at the Ordinary Meeting of Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

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Second Cautes of Sidon holding an axe

In this case, a quiver has been attached to the tree-stump behind the torchbearer.

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The mithraeum of Dura-Europos. New discoveries about an old excavation

Intervention de Lucinda Dirven, Universiteit van Amsterdam.

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Carabinieri recover a Mithras Tauroctony about to be sold on the black market

The Mithriac votive sculpture comes from a clandestine excavation in the Tarquinia area. The criminal chain is active in archaeological areas of Rome and southern Etruria.

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Vasio (Vaison-la-Romaine)

Vaison-la-Romaine is a town in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. Vaison-la-Romaine is famous for its rich Roman ruins and mediaeval town and cathedral. The old town is split into two parts: the

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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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Alcimus

Slave and vilicus in the household of Tiberius Claudius Livianus, linked to the earliest known Mithraic tauroctony.

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Pinnes

He was a soldier of the Cohors I Belgarum, probably of Dalmatian origin, who dedicated an altar to Mithras in Aufustianis.

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Statue of Cautes dedicated by Hymnus

Marble statuette of the torchbearer Cautes bearing the votive inscription HYMNUS INBICTO, probably produced during the second or third century CE and preserved in an old European collection.

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Iουλιανος

Soldier of the Legio XVI Flavia Firma Antoniana stationed at Dura Europos and known from a dedication to Zeus Helios Mithras and Tourmasgade.

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Ulpius Silvanus

Soldier recruited in Arausio (Orange), emeritus of the Legion II Augusta.

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Μᾶρκος Αὐρήλιος Σέλευκος

Lifelong pater of Mithras in Anazarbus, holding the civic title Father of the Homeland.

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Marcus Cerellius Hieronymus

Leading member of the Ostian Mithraic community, holder of the titles pater, sacerdos and antistes.

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