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Regarding the “Persian” nature of Mithras and Mithraism

A flaw in the dominant narrative or just the usual genealogy?

Hetanos Argonavord
Hetanos Argonavord

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Some places to visit

  • Mitreo della Planta Pedis

    The floor of the central aisle of the Mithraeum of the Footprint in Ostia has a mosaic depicting a snake and a footprint.

     
  • Niasar Cave

    The Niasar Cave, غار نیاسر, was a temple probably devoted to Iranian Mithras that dates back to the early Partian era.

     
  • Mithréum de Mandelieu

    Excavations in 1979 on the remains of the church of Notre-Dame d'Avigonet in Mandelieu, Alpes-Maritimes, brought to light a small mithraeum.

     
  • Probable Mithraeum on the Aventine between S. Saba and Via Salvator, Rome

    Roman building on the Aventine between the eastern side of S. Saba and Via Salvator, probably used as a Mithraeum at the end of the 4th century, with a long corridor bearing three semicircular niches and a large external basin.

     

Sententia

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The New Mithraeum

Pine-cone hunting season is officially open: https://www.mithraeum.eu/quaere.php?tag=pinea

on Tauroctony from Târgușor

 

The New Mithraeum

Here you go https://www.mithraeum.eu/monument/770

on Fragments of a column base from Hamadan

 

Mateusz Zalewski

The Two Gates: Thank you very much for sharing this Dominique. Traditionally…

on Mithraeum at Santa Maria Capua Vetere. Revisited in February 2026

 

Pattie L

There was an actual (charred) pinecone found in the floor at Carrawburgh. Understandably hard to tag…

on Tauroctony from Târgușor

 

Pattie L

You can see, by the scoring in the "stone", that the corner was simply added to make it more…

on Tauroctony relief from Naples

 

The New Mithraeum

Salve Pattie, In case you missed it, there is also a page on the mithraeum itself: https://www.mithraeum.eu/monument/39…

on Tauroctonia del Mitreo de Duino

 

Pattie L

I was just SO excited over this one. XOXO

on Altar from Paks

 

Isabelle Waine

salve. The site entry for Gaius Cassius Flavianus says there is attestation that he was part of the mithraeum at Ad Enum…

on Mithraeum of Inveresk

 
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