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.
C’est en 1986, à l’occasion de la restructuration de l’ancien magasin Parunis, qu’une fouille de sauvetage archéologique fut réalisée cours Victor Hugo.
The Mithraeum of Martigny is the first temple devoted to Mithras found in Switzerland.
In the second half of the 4th century, a Mithraic temple was established within an earlier spring sanctuary at Septeuil, where the cult of the nymphs and Mithraic practices appear to have coexisted.
Archaeologists discovered the 20th temple dedicated to Mithras in Ostia during the restoration of the domus del capitello di stucco in 2022.
Altar of Bergamo
Tauroctony of Bologna
Mithras taurophorus of Ptuj
Tauroctony of St. Andrä vor dem Hagenthale
Tauroctony relief from Apulum
Tablet of Antiochus I from Samsat
Serapis head of Walbrook
Altar of Carnuntum by Sacidius Barbarus
Denarius depicting Mithras rock-birth of St. Albans
Sententia
Better image from Mitrei Ostia. What we need is a road trip to go see it ourselves. I call shot gun!!
on CIMRM 893
Wowsers
https://www.mithraeum.eu/group/anglo.mithraic.society
on a post
I'd have liked to see the face of the carabinieri when they discovered the sculpture.
on Carabinieri recover a Mithras Tauroctony about to be sold on the black market
Monreal monastery 12th century AD ...
Greeaaaaaaat. Now I’m flying to Chicago. ;-) Thanks for the heads up.
Salve Ennio, The CIMRM is 1283. Unfortunately, I don’t know the inventory number wherever it is exposed…
On the York Tauroctony from C. Wellbeloved, Eburacum (1842) This Mithraic group was found in the year 1747…
Porphyry says that the cave isn’t only the symbol of the Cosmos, but also the symbol of invisible powers…
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