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.
Notitiae
Restoring the Mysteries: A Conversation with Peter Mark Adams on his new book ‘Ritual & Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras’.
Exploring religion, rituals, archaeological insights, and historical impact of the Cult of Mithras in the Danubian provinces.
Tracing the links between the cult of Mithras and the Proud Boys’ quest for identity, power, and belonging…
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.
Introductio
Press clips
Archaeologists at Doliche are now excavating houses around the vast Mithras temple to learn how people lived beside the sanctuary.
Newsroom
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.
Agencia
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 Mithraeum of Sutri was built inside a rocky hill that also hosted the Roman theatre of the city.
The Roman villa of Can Molodell had a sanctuary that has been related to the cult of Mithras.
The Mithraeum of the Animals was decorated with a mosaic depicting a naked man, a cock, a raven, an scorpion, a snake and the head of the bull.
A Mithraeum has been identified in Eleusis where the last Hierophant form thespia had the rank of Father in the Mithraic Mysteries.
Altar to Mithras at the Walters Art Museum
Altar with Inscription to Mithras of Rottenburg
Head of Mithras from the Mitreo degli Animali
Serapis head from Mérida
Tauroctony of Plovdiv
Marble slab with inscription of Aelius Urbanus
Altar of Sarmizegetusa by Hermadio
Inscription of Valentinus Secundionis
Altar with Sol’s head from Altbachtal
Sententia
The map entry seems to be wrong, nowhere near Saarbrücken
You’re absolutely right, Pattie. I’ve made the correction. Thanks for spotting it!
Wowsers
Papa, the Pope in Latin, would be short for Pater Patrum 🤔. It’s a clever statement…
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This him! ^__^ Now we need a better picture of that tauroctony.... ;-)
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Remarkable monument not only because it is the first sculpted representation of the entire Mithraic tauroctony…
Dear Csaba , I am fascinated by your slab of Mithras with Cautes wearing a child in front of the bull…
Excellent idea, Matthew. Count on us!
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It is magnificent. so better if you had a picture of the inside.
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