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
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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
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.
A mosaic of Silvanus, dated to the time of Commodus, was found in a niche in a nearby room of the Mithraeum in the Imperial Palace at Ostia.
The remains of the Jajački Mithraeum were discovered accidentally during excavation for the construction of a private house in 1931.
Mithras and other oriental gods were worshipped in the shrine of Zeus near the Villa of the Quintilians in Rome.
According to Hitzinger remnants of animal bones were found in front of the relief of the Mithraeum at Rozanec.
The Acosolium of the Mysteries in the Hypogeum of Vibia
CIMRM 256
CIMRM 496
Tauroctony of Sárkeszi
Prostrate figure fresco of Capua Vetere
Frescoes with standing figures of Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte
Aion from Muti's gardens
Aion of Villa Albani
Tauroctony of Dormagen
Sententia
what’s the inventar number?
Thank you! ☺️ So nice!
Thank you for sharing it and congratulations for your beautiful and interesting work.
Thank you for your reply. My comment was in no way meant to be critical, I found the same information on the web…
Near the village of Septeuil, in the Yvelines department (Île-de-France), lie the very faint…
Gratias Pattie!
Original is now in the Ötzi Museum in Bozen, but still not part of an exhibition. Lit…
Indeed, Dionisia. Thanks for noticing. Well corrected.
This is not CIMRM 893. The Bordeaux mithraeum is post-CIMRM. Here’s CIMRM 893: https://www.tertullian…
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