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 site was destroyed in the 5th century but some elements, including the benches, can still been seen.
In the 1900s a model Mithraeum was built in Saalburg in the mistaken belief that there was an original temple of Mithras in an ancient Roman building.
The Mithraeum of Caernarfon, in Walles, was built in three phases during the 3rd century, and destroyed at the end of the 4th.
The Mithraeum of Biesheim-Kunheim is located near the ancient village of Altkirch, near the Rhin.
Torso dedicated to Mithras
Fresco of a knight and a black figure from the Hawarte Mithraeum.
Heracles captures the Golden Hind of Artemis
Tauroctony from York
Tauroctony from Jajce
Tauroctony marble from Mitreo Fagan
Antiochus I shakes hands with naked Apollo-Mithras-Helios
Tauroctony from Antium
CIMRM 599
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AVE , Hello, I'd like to offer you a Platonic interpretation of the Trier Relief…
what’s the inventar number?
Indeed, Dionisia. Thanks for noticing. Well corrected.
My cult here works with those thing with what said in avesta. I wanna know we are doing right or wrong…
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Does anyone know what the outcome of this was? Was a lower layer of paint revealed?
on CIMRM 484
Tauroctony and inscription: CIMRM 1012-13 12 stone balls and bronze lamp: CIMRM 1016
Glad to be helpful. I can share two additional photographs of the site, showing the overall layout…
here’s a wonderful article, full of meanings to explain the different gods…
This is not CIMRM 893. The Bordeaux mithraeum is post-CIMRM. Here’s CIMRM 893: https://www.tertullian…
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