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  • Mithraeum

    Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte

    The House of the Mithraeum of the Painted Walls was built in the second half of the 2nd century BC (opus incertum) and modified during the Augustan period.

    TNMM2 – CIMRM 264

  • Monumentum

    Aion of Oxyrhynchus

    According to Pettazzoni Aion in general finds its iconographical origin in Egypt. Mithras must have been worshipped in Egypt in the third century B.C.

    TNMM271 – CIMRM 103

  • Notitia

    Re-interpreting the Mysteries of Mithras

    Ernest Renan suggested that without the rise of Christianity, we might all have embraced the cult of Mithras. Nevertheless, it has had a lasting influence on secret societies, religious movements and popular culture.
  • Notitia

    Raised by Wolves: Mithraism and Sol Explained

    HBO Max's sci-fi series Raised By Wolves features a religious faction that references Sol and the Mithraic Mysteries. Here are the real-world Roman concepts the show borrowed from.
  • Syndexios

    Rufius Caeionius Sabinus

    Senator and Pater Sacrorum of Mithras, who consecrated several monuments in Rome in the late 4th century.
  • Syndexios

    Veturius Dubitatus

    Veteran and ex duplicarius of ala I civum Romanorum who dedicated an altar to Mithras in Teutoburgium.
  • Syndexios

    Claudius Zenobius

    Procurator of Tarraconensis, he dedicated a monument to the Invincible God, Isis and Serapis in Asturica Augusta.
  • Syndexios

    Marcus Licinius Ripanus

    Prefect, probably of Cohors II Tungrorum, who dedicated an altar to the invincible sun god Mithras in Camboglanna, Britannia.
  • Syndexios

    Dioscorus

    Dioscorus is a freedman from the Greek-speaking part of the Empire who dedicated an altar to the invincible Mythra.
  • Syndexios

    Tiberius Claudius Thermodon

    Dedicated multiple monuments to Mithras, Fortuna Primigenia and Diana in Etruria.