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The New Mithraeum Database

Find news, articles, monuments, persons, books and videos related to the Cult of Mithras

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The Mystery of Mithras: Exploring the heart of a Roman cult

Three European museums celebrate Mithras with a continental exhibition featuring more than 200 works of art from Roman times to the present day.

 
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Mithraism with Jason Reza Jorjani

Jason Reza Jorjani, PhD, is a philosopher and author of Prometheus and Atlas, World State of Emergency, Lovers of Sophia, Novel Folklore: The Blind Owl of Sadegh Hedayat, and Iranian Leviathan: A Monumental History of Mithra's Abode.

 
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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.

 
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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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From Mithraism to Freemasonry. A history of ideas

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.

 
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Mithraeum of Savaria/Szombathely

The ruins of the Mithraeum of Savaria are kept under a new plaza.

 
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The Mithreaum of Lugo reveals the expansion of the Persian cult to the boundaries of Hispania

The museum that houses the temple of Mithras has become the most visited Roman space in the city since it opened.

 
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CIMRM 850

ILN 1951,455; Richmond-Gillam, 30 and PI.

 
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CIMRM 485

On the first layer of the left wall there are three lines in the section above door b' on both sides of which are two series of respectively three and two other lines.

 
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CIMRM 90

Fragment of white marble relief (H. 0.20 Br. 0.13 D. 0.07).

 
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CIMRM 32

Inscription carved on the pairs of columns on the backs of the five thrones, which stand on the west and east part of the terrace.

 
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CIMRM 16

During excavations at Boghaz-Koi in 1907 clay tablets were found on which a treaty concluded between Chatti and Mitanni in the 14th century B.

 
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Lion of Carnuntum III

Exceptional sculpture of a lion devouring a bull's head founded in 1894 in Carnuntum, Pannonia.

 
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Tauroctony from York

This stone in basso relief of Mithras killing the bull was found 10 foot underground in Micklegate York in 1747.

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