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  • 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

    Mithrastempel in Virunum. Aus Forschung und Kunst, vol. 28 (1994)

    Monograph in German dedicated to the Mithraic temple found in Virunum in 1992.
  • Liber

    Mithriaca II. The Mithraeum at Ponza (1974)

    Second volume of Vermaseren's series Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'Empire romain, Mithriaca, dedicated to a small Mithraic sanctuary on the island of Ponza in the Tyrrhenian Sea.
  • Syndexios

    Julian

    Roman emperor and philosopher known for his restoration of Hellenistic polytheism.
  • Syndexios

    Hermadio

    Hermadio's inscriptions have been found in Dacian Tibiscum and Sarmizegetusa, as well as in Rome.
  • Monumentum

    Relief fragment of Ptuj

    Several Mithraic scenes, including Mithras with Saturn, Mithras with Sol and Mithras' Ascension, are depicted on this fragment of a relief from Ptuj.

    TNMM391 – CIMRM 1579

  • Monumentum

    Two-sided relief of Dieburg

    The relief of Dieburg shows Mithras riding a horse as main figure, surrounded by several scenes of the myth.

    TNMM231 – CIMRM 1247

    [Side A:] D(eo) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / Silves/trius / Silvi/nius et Silvestrius Pe[rpetus et A]urelius nepos / v(otum) s(olverunt) l(ibentes) l(aeti) m(erito). / Perpetus fra/te[r] artis sutor(iae). …
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of 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'.

    TNMM176 – CIMRM 1292, 1293

    D[eo] S[oli] I[nvicto] M[ithrae] M[er?]catorius Castrensis in suo cons[ituit].
  • Monumentum

    Medallions with Mithras from Trapezus

    These bronze medallions associates the image of several Roman emperors with that of Mithras, usually as a rider, in the province Pontus.

    TNMM553

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Strasbourg

    These fragments of a monumental relief of Mithras killing the bull were put together...

    TNMM576 – CIMRM 1359, 1360

    [In h(onorem)] d(omus) d(ivinae) d(eo) i(nvicto) M[ithrae] / ... us M.P.D ... / ... us typu[m] ... / ... solo v ...