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  • Tractatus

    Hyenas or Lionesses? Mithraism and Women in the Religious World of the Late Antiquity

    In this article, Chalupa examines the scant evidence that has been found for the presence of women in the Roman cult of Mithras.
  • Liber

    Lux perpetua (1949)

    Quand Cumont mourut, le 20 août 1947, il avait pu relire déjà en premières épreuves l'ensemble de ce livre, sauf le dernier chapitre et les Notes Complémentaires. Les amis qu'il avait chargés de le publier l'ont fait avec un soin pieux. Ils y ont a…
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony relief exposed at the Hermitage Museum

    The relief marble of Mithras sacrifying the bull, exposed on the Hermitage Museum comes from Rome.

    TNMM308 – CIMRM 603, 604

    D(onum) deo invicto d(ederunt) / Marci Matti / Fortuna/tus / et Alexander / et Pardus / et Eficax / per Fl(avio) Alexandro patre.
  • Monumentum

    Lion-headed Aion from Sidon

    The controversial Italian journalist Edmon Durighello discovered this marble statue of a young naked Aion in 1887.

    TNMM157 – CIMRM 78, 79

    Φλ. Γερόντιος, πατὴρ νόμιμος, ἀνεϑέμην τῷ φ̕ ἔτι.
  • Monumentum

    Base with inscription of Priscus Eucheta to Navarze

    This inscription, which doesn't mention Mithras, was found near the church of Santa Balbina on the Aventine in Rome.

    TNMM653 – CIMRM 501

    Invicto d(eo) Navarze / Terentius Priscus / P(ublii) f(ilius) / Eucheta curante / et sacratis / d(onum) d(edit) c(ompos) b(oti).
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony relief found between Porta Portese and St Pancrace

    Franz Cumont bought this relief of Mithras as a bullkiller from a dealer who claimed to have found it in a vineyard near the church of Saint Pancrace, in Rome.

    TNMM671 – CIMRM 585

  • Liber

    Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae (1956)

    Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae (or CIMRM) is a two volume collection of inscriptions and monuments relating primarily to the Mithraic Mysteries.
  • Monumentum

    Relief of Aion-Phanes

    The Aion / Phanes relief, currently on display in the Gallerie Estensi, Moneda, is associated with two Eastern mysteric religions: Mithraism and Orphism.

    TNMM327 – CIMRM 695, 696

    Euphrosy/n[e] et Felix. P(ecunia) p(osuit) / Felix pater.
  • Liber

    Mithriaca IV. Le Monument d'Ottaviano Zeno et le culte de Mithra sur le Célius (1978)

    Ce 4e fascicule de Mithriaca concerne un très curieux monument exhumé au XVIe siècle sur le site d'un Mithraeum qu'on localise tout près de l'église S. Maria in Domnica, non loin de S. Stefano Rotondo où un autre spelaeum fut mis au jour en 1973.
  • Liber

    Les Religions orientales dans le paganisme romain (1963)

    CUMONT (Franz) Les Religions orientales dans le paganisme romain. Paris, Librairie orientaliste Geuthner 1963, 336 et 16 planches hors-texte ; rééd anastatique de la 4e édition (1929) On se réjouit de posséder nouveau ce grand livre. Certes notre…
  • Monumentum

    Inscription of Victorinus from Tibur

    This tabula marmorea was consecrated by a certain slave Vitorinus in Tibur, nowadays Tivoli, near Rome.

    TNMM569 – CIMRM 214

    Soli invicto Mithrae. / Sicuti ipse se in visu / iussit refici / Victorinus Caes(aris) n(ostri) / verna dispensator / numini praesenti suis in/pend(i)s reficiendum / curavit dedicav[itque]. / Nama cun…
  • Notitia

    Mariemont unveils
    (some of) the Mysteries of Mithras

    The exhibition The Mystery of Mithras opens at the Mariemont Museum in Belgium, home of Franz Cumont, the father of studies on the solar god.
  • Notitia

    Mariemont dévoile
    (en partie) les Mystères de Mithra

    L'exposition Le Mystère de Mithra s'initie au Musée de Mariemont, en Belgique, patrie de Franz Cumont, père des études sur le dieu solaire.
  • Syndexios

    Commodus

    Roman emperor, son of the emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius.
  • Liber

    The "Mithras Liturgy". Text, Translation, and Commentary (2003)

    Just hundred years after the first edition of Albrecht Dietrich's Eine Mithrasliturgie (Leipzig 1903; 1923), the present book offers a complete new edition of so complex a text. It provides the Greek text, an English translation, a punctual introduction, …
  • Liber

    Mithraic Iconography and Ideology (1968)

    CAMPBELL (L.A.) Mithraic Iconography and Ideology Leyde E.J Brill 1968 444 p. 26 figures 45 planches Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans empire romain XI) Auteur d'une Typologie de Mithra taurochtone, L.A. Campbell a entrepris de déga…
  • Liber

    The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire. Mysteries of the Unconquered Sun (2007)

    Roger Beck describes Mithraism from the point of view of the initiate engaging with the religion and its rich symbolic system in thought, word, ritual action, and cult life.
  • Mithraeum

    Mithraeum of Qasr Ibn Wardan

    According to F. Cumont, the Bedouins told a legend from which Nöldeke concluded that the castle of Quasr-ibn-Wardân was a fort with a mithraeum.

    TNMM350 – CIMRM 73

  • Liber

    On Mithraism and Freemasonry (1996)

    The fraternal order that focussed on the worship of the ancient Iranian god Mithra was probably formed in Iran, Armenia, and Pontus (the southern coastal region of the Black Sea in eastern Anatolia, present-day Turkey). Travelers and colonists from theseS…
  • Liber

    Religions solaires et culte initiatique de Mithra (1975)

    L'école mithriaque représente, à nos yeux, une source riche et féconde d'enseignements relatifs à la conduite de la vie. Il nous a semblé aussi que la psychothérapie actuelle se trouverait enrichie par l'étude des données des "psychodrames" antiques