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The New Mithraeum Database

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Life of Alexander

In Plutarch’s Life of Alexander, the grieving Darius binds the eunuch Tireus by the light of Mithras to reveal the truth about his captive wife Statira, a solemn appeal that leads to unexpected praise for Alexander’s honor and restraint.

Syndexios

Lucius Antonius Menander

He was from Aphrodisias in Caria, where he erected a relief depicting Mithras killing the bull.

Notitia

Mithraism As Proud Boy Prototype: Underground Clubs of the Syndexioi and Pueri Superbi

Tracing the links between the cult of Mithras and the Proud Boys’ quest for identity, power, and belonging. How ancient rituals and brotherhood ideals resurface in radical modern movements.

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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.

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Mithraeum under the Basilica of S. Lorenzo

In 1938 this Mithraeum was found 3.45 mtrs under the Basilica of S. Lorenzo in Damaso, in a cellar near the Sacrament's Chapel.

Monumentum

Cautes and Cautopates from Mithraeum III of Heddernheim

The two companions of Mithras carry a torch and a shepherd's staff at the third Mithraeum in Frankfurt-Heddernheim, formerly Nida.

Monumentum

Tauroctony from Vratnitsa

This relief of Mithras as a bullkiller found at Vratnitsa, near Lisicici in northern Macedonia, was signed by a certain Menander Aphrodisieus.

Locus

Teurnia (Spittal an der Drau)

Teurnia became an important late Roman urban centre in the province of Noricum.

Monumentum

Non-Mithraic funerary inscription reconsidered at Vesontio

A funerary inscription from Besançon (ancient Vesontio) in Belgica, bearing the title mater sacrorum, but correctly excluded from the Mithraic corpus, as women were barred from Mithras sanctuaries.

Monumentum

Tauroctony statuette from Halle an der Saale

Small bronze statuette recovered from the river Saale near Burg Giebichenstein in 1900, depicting Mithras as bull-slayer without a Phrygian cap; the left leg is lost.

Monumentum

Sol and torchbearer corner with horizontal border from Mithraeum II, Ptuj

Left upper corner of a marble relief from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, with the dressed bust of Sol in radiate crown above a horizontal rim, beneath which the head of a torchbearer, probably Cautopates.

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.

Notitia

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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Oracle against the Christians under Galerius

In the eighteenth year of Diocletian’s reign, Galerius Maximianus, persuaded by the sorcerer Theoteknos, consulted demonic oracles in a cave and was urged to initiate the persecution of the Christians.

Monumentum

Consecration for Mars Meder

The relief of naked Roman soldier, wearing a mantle and a Phrygian cap, has been related to the Mithras' cult.

Monumentum

Tauroctonia del Cortile del Belvedere

White marble relief depicting Mithras slaying the bull, dedicated by Atimetus.

Video

Du Capitole au Louvre-Lens - itinérance moderne d'un relief mithriaque

Intervention de Richard Veymiers, directeur du Musée royal de Mariemont et Laurent Bricault, de l'Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès.

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Media

Historical region of north-western Iran, forming a major political and cultural centre under the Parthian and Sasanian empires.

Monumentum

Slab with dedicatory poem from near S. Silvestro, Rome

Large marble slab found in 1648 near S. Silvestro in Capite, inscribed with a Latin dedicatory poem forming a cypher-acrostic for TAMESIUS and AUGENTIUS, with records of leontica and chrysos initiations, dated to 362 A.D.

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