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.
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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 sixth temple dedicated to Mithras has been identified for the first time in the military sector of the ancient Roman city of Aquincum.
The site was destroyed in the 5th century but some elements, including the benches, can still been seen.
The Mithraeum of the Circus Maximus was discovered in 1931 during work carried out to create a storage area for the scenes and costumes of the Opera House within the Museums of Rome building.
A Mithraeum has been identified in Eleusis where the last Hierophant form thespia had the rank of Father in the Mithraic Mysteries.
Altars of Dura Europos
Aion of Vienne
Tauroctony sculpture of Villa Borghese
Intaglio of Abraxas and Mithras
Inscription of Aurelius Mithres
Head of Mithras from Santo Stefano Rotondo
Inscripton of Justus from Caerleon
Cautopates with a hooked stick of Nida
Two figures relief from Via Zanardelli
Sententia
Thanks Pattie!
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Remarkable monument not only because it is the first sculpted representation of the entire Mithraic tauroctony…
Salve Pattie. I suspect they have been merged because there is not much information on them other…
Indeed, Stephen. The catalogue is highly recommendable for all audiences, academic, professional and the simply curious…
Visited 2 times. Different stone type also.
I see the Platonic Chiasmus on this fresco from Pompei. I think Mithras and Sol Apollo have nothing to see with earth…
some pictures from 1895:
I recently had the opportunity to visit the remains of this mithraeum. It is located in Altafulla…
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