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.
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At Rome’s twilight, amid political upheaval and Christian ascendancy, Vettius Agorius Praetextatus embodied pagan intellect, virtue, and authority across senatorial, military, and mystical spheres.
By reading Orphic theology together with Eleusinian ritual practice, the mysteries emerge as a structured mystagogy of transformation:…
This article revisits the Mithraeum of S. Maria Capua Vetere, one of the most complete and artistically refined Mithraic sanctuaries in the Campanian region, situating it within its archaeological, iconographic, and ritual-historical contexts.
In his first book, Fahim Ennouhi sheds light on the cult of Mithras in Roman Africa. A marginal and elitist phenomenon, confined to restricted circles and largely absent from local religious dynamics, yet revealing.
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Archaeologists at Doliche are now excavating houses around the vast Mithras temple to learn how people lived beside the sanctuary.
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The Mysteries of Mithras is an independent Initiatic Order which is inspired by and uses the allegory of the lost and ancient Mithraic Mysteries also known as Mithraism a previously influential Roman Cult of the same name.
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Over the last century or so, a great deal has been said about the god Mithras and his mysteries, which became known to the European world mainly through his Roman cultus during the Imperial Period.
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A place of worship for the Roman god of light Mithras was discovered during archaeological excavations in Trier. This includes a larger relief.
Las excavaciones llevadas a cabo en el yacimiento arqueológico romano de la villa de Mithra, en Cabra (Córdoba), han deparado el excepcional hallazgo de un mitreo, o zona destinada al culto al dios Mithra, cuya estatua fue descubierta hace unos 70 años.
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The Mithraeum of the terms of Mithras takes its name from being installed in the service area of the Baths of Mithras.
This shrine developed towards the end of 2nd century and remained active until beginning 4th.
The Mithraeum of London, also known as the Walbrook Mithraeum, was contextualised and relocated to its original site in 2016.
Workman digging in a field near Dormagen found a vault. Against one of the walls were found two monuments related to Mithras.
Inscription of Septimius Archelaus
Altar of Hostilius from Skelani
Petrogeny from Santo Stefano Rotondo
CIMRM 2196 & 2197
Inscription of Aurelius Mithres
Floor mosaic of Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale
Inscription by Velox of Aquileia
Altar of Castlesteads
Mithraic stele from Alba Iulia
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Glad it wasn’t routine & boring.
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Original is now in the Ötzi Museum in Bozen, but still not part of an exhibition. Lit…
Photo by the awesome Carole Raddato of Hollowing Hadrian.
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Welcome my friend! Glad to see you.
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Interessante e gostei muito deste artigo. Penso que o culto de Mitra carece de mais documentação arqueológica escrita…
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Anyone have a photo of this piece?
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