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Three European museums celebrate Mithras with a continental exhibition featuring more than 200 works of art from Roman times to the present day.
Peter Mark Adams: ‘The initiation was a frightening experience that caused some people to panic as a flood of otherworldly entities swept through the ritual space.’.
Video report in Hungarian by the Aquincum Museum on the Mithraic discoveries in the region.
The marble Tauroctony of Asciano, Siena, was donated by Franz Cumont to the Academia Belgica, Rome.
The article reveals the context in which the first public appearance of Mitra happened to answer two questions: who were the first people to give prominence to this deity, and for what purpose they did so.
Twelve centuries separate the decline of Roman Mithraism from the dawn of Freemasonry. Twelve centuries during which the mysteries of Mithras have remained more secret than ever.
How a rock relief in western Iran, carved during the time of the Sasanian Persian Empire (AD 224-651), has been re-imagined over the centuries.
A torch end held by a hand in the pose of a dadophore, and another hand holding a small offering, found at the south-east cemetery adjacent to the Mithraeum of Les Bolards (ancient Venetonimagus) in Lugdunensis.
Three epigraphical fragments that together form the word magister, with traces of fire, found at the Mithraeum of Les Bolards (ancient Venetonimagus) in Lugdunensis.
A fine white marble bust of Venus, a head of a helmeted deity possibly Minerva, small female heads, and bronze eye-plaques analogous to those from the temples of Sequana and Apollo Vindonnus, found at the building south-west of the Mithraeum at Les…
A large red and white granite marble disc surrounded by rays, possibly representing the sun, found at the building south-west of the Mithraeum at Les Bolards (ancient Venetonimagus) in Lugdunensis.
Architectural elements including marble plaques, mouldings, entablature sections, and acanthus friezes, found in a building about 30–40 metres south-west of the Mithraeum at Les Bolards (ancient Venetonimagus) in Lugdunensis, suggesting the possible existence of a second sanctuary…
Two small stone fragments, possibly from a base, found at the Mithraeum of Les Bolards (ancient Venetonimagus) in Lugdunensis.
Fragments of a slab bearing an inscription mentioning Sol Aeternus and cohors II, found at the Mithraeum of Les Bolards (ancient Venetonimagus) in Lugdunensis.
A small white marble column decorated in high relief with spiral oak-leaves and acorns, together with fragments of two legs and two hands holding votive offerings, found at the Mithraeum of Les Bolards (ancient Venetonimagus) in Lugdunensis.
A small woman's head crowned with flowers, found at the Mithraeum of Les Bolards (ancient Venetonimagus) in Lugdunensis.
Two small heads in Phrygian caps, possibly belonging to a tauroctony of Mithras, together with a fragment of a bull's foot and the mouth and neck of the dog, found at the Mithraeum of Les Bolards (ancient Venetonimagus) in Lugdunensis.
Fragmentary remains of a statuette of Cautopates in a short tunic, including a thigh, knee, and hand holding the end of a torch, found near the entrance of the Mithraeum at Les Bolards (ancient Venetonimagus) in Lugdunensis.
A badly damaged tauroctony relief carved in peperino, fixed high into a wall of the old farm known as Le Capanacce on the Via Cassia near Vicus Matrini in Etruria, showing Mithras as a bullkiller in a vaulted cave with serpent, the head and left arm of the god lost…
A brief dedicatory inscription carved in the lower corner of the tauroctony relief from near Vicus Matrini on the Via Cassia in Etruria, recording L. Avillius Rufinus as dedicant.
