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.
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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.
Restoring the Mysteries: A Conversation with Peter Mark Adams on his new book ‘Ritual & Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras’.
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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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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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On the occasion of the exhibition, the Royal Museum of Mariemont invites five experts from Europe to emulate the research on the cult of Mithras.
The remains of the Jajački Mithraeum were discovered accidentally during excavation for the construction of a private house in 1931.
The Mithraeum of Osterburken could not be excavated bodily owing to the water of a well in the immediate neighbourhood. The monument had been covered carefully with sand.
One of the rooms of the villa has been interpreted as a mithraeum, but we do not have enough evidence to confirm this.
The Sárkeszi mithraeum is unusual for its large dimensions and its semicircular eastern wall.
CIMRM 992
CIMRM 615
Altar of Carnuntum by Sacidius Barbarus
CIMRM 1743
CIMRM 667
Tauroctony from the Mithraeum of Lucciana
Cautopates in the Walters Art Museum
Inscription to Mithras by Claudius Romanius from Köln
Tauroctony from Domus del Mitreo of Tarquinia
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I guess indeed Vermaseren was referring to what we call pine cones today.
Thank you, Jaime, for your clarification of this monument, previously identified as Mithraic…
Yes Madame. Its a white marble statue (H. 0.93), found in 1952 in Fuente de la Piedras, community of Cabra (prov. Cordova)…
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Thanks. That helped.
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Well, thanks for getting back to me. If there’s anything you’d like to know, feel free to poke me. Nice to meet you…
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Gracias a ti por unirte. Abrazos!
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Not yet. I’ll publish it in the group asap
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Thank you for noticing, Ron. The Syrian location mentioned before referred to the original Roman Province, I guess. Regards.
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