The Digital Atlas of Roman Sanctuaries in the Danubian Provinces (DAS) is the first comprehensive and open access representation of sacralised spaces in the area.
Notitiae
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.
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.
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.
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The Mysteries of Mithras is an independent Initiatic Order which is inspired by and uses the allegory of the lost and ancient Mithraic Mysteries also known as Mithraism a previously influential Roman Cult of the same name.
Mysteriesofmithras/sandbox
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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The Mithraeum of Sidon may have escaped destruction because the Mithras worshippers walled up the entrance to the underground sanctuary.
Excavated in 1919, the Mithraeum near the Roman Gate was installed in the 3rd century within a larger building complex.
The Mithraeum of Inveresk, south of Musselburgh, East Lothian, is the first found in Scotland, and the earliest securely dated example from Britain.
The Mithraeum of Frutosus was in a temple assigned to the guild of the stuppatores.
Inscription to Mithras and Silvanus from Ljubljana
Inscription of Chyndonax
Tauroctony from St. Andrä vor dem Hagenthale
Inscription of Septimius Archelaus
Tauroctony from Bologna
Cautopates from Jajce
CIMRM 760
Consecration for Jupiter and Hercules
Altar from Ain-Zana
Sententia
I did not express myself well. I think that this golbe or ball is the soul but also of Plato's Anima Mundi…
here is the altar of Sarrebourg , picture tooken in 1890.
Tauroctony and inscription: CIMRM 1012-13 12 stone balls and bronze lamp: CIMRM 1016
Papa, the Pope in Latin, would be short for Pater Patrum 🤔. It’s a clever statement…
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Hi Levin: It’s quite a common point of view in religious contexts to worrying about to what…
on Hyenas or Lionesses? Mithraism and Women in the Religious World of the Late Antiquity
Nonne speluncae instrumenta communicationis socialis et manipulatio populi, ars tantum inter tyrannos inventa…
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y un tercero aquí
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Does anyone know what the outcome of this was? Was a lower layer of paint revealed?
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Everyone crowds around to see which books they have in common. ;-)
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