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Note from Franz Cumont on Sidon discoveries

The following note deserved an entry in Vermaseren’s Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae.

Textum

The Dura Mithraeum

Posthumous publication of Franz Cumont’s study of the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, edited and introduced by Eric David Francis.

Video

Las metamorfosis de Mitra

En esta vídeo entrevista, Israel Campos Méndez aborda las principales cuestiones que siguen dividiendo a los especialistas: los orígenes del culto de Mitra, su evolución desde las tradiciones indoiranias hasta el Imperio romano y el legado de Franz…

Monumentum

Tauroctony from Mile, Jajce

This marble relief depicting Mithras as a bull-slayer was once owned by Major Holzhausen and Franz Cumont and is now housed at the Belgian Academy.

Monumentum

Tauroctony from Osterburken

Franz Cumont considers the bas relief of Osterburken ’the most remarkable of all the monuments of the cult of Mithras found up to now’.

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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.

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.

Monumentum

Tauroctony from Asciano

The marble Tauroctony of Asciano, Siena, was donated by Franz Cumont to the Academia Belgica, Rome.

Liber

The Excavations at Dura-Europos. Preliminary Report of the Seventh and Eighth Seasons of Work, 1933–1934 and 1934–1935

Preliminary archaeological report on the seventh and eighth excavation seasons at Dura-Europos, including the first detailed publication of the Roman Mithraeum.

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