We speak with Israel Campos Méndez about questions that continue to divide scholars: what links the Indo-Iranian Mithra to the deity worshipped in the Roman Empire, and what do we really know about the origins of Roman Mithraism?
Notitiae
Arguments for interpreting the Tomb of the Elephant as a Mithraeum based on architectural archaeology, digital surveying and archaeoastronomy.
Labors of Hercules as planetary zodiacal initiations: model mystagogy. The alchemy of Herculean labors.
Lenni George on Hekate’s development across ancient traditions, from mystery cults to magical practice and philosophical thought.
On what Hekate’s name may or may not tell us, and why the uncertainty matters.
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Archaeologists at Doliche are now excavating houses around the vast Mithras temple to learn how people lived beside the sanctuary.
Newsroom
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.
Mysteriesofmithras/sandbox
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 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.
Two Mithras sanctuaries, which were located on the edge of the settlement, were excavated in Güglingen.
This Mithraic shrine on the island of Ponza is renowned for its exceptional stucco zodiac and astral symbolism linked to Roman Mithaism.
The Mithraeum of Tazoult / Lambèse is one of the best preserved Mithras’s temples in Africa.
Feast from Mérida
Altar of Carrawburgh by Aulus Cluentius
Mithras tauroctonus and taurophorus vessel from Lanuvium
Tauroctony from Sisak
Tauroctony in Copenhagen
Altar of Iulius Rasci from Borovo
Tauroctony relief from Şehitkamil (Gaziantep)
Mithraic relief from Baris
Aion relief of Palazzo Colonna
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CIMRM 1655
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Dear Jorge, on two slabs from the Baths of Diocletian, the one from Santo Stefano Rotondo and the one from Tor Cervara …
Welcome Hamed and thank you for your excellent group and posts. We *need* more!
Un saludo fraternal a ti, Ricardo.
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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I think there is no trace of this mithraeum since long time ago...
It is magnificent. so better if you had a picture of the inside.
