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 Mithraeum Felicissimus has a floor mosaic depicting the seven mithraic grades.
The Mitreo dei Castra Peregrinorum was discovered under the church of Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome.
After Christianity was adopted, most pagan monuments were destroyed or abandoned. Garni, however, was preserved at the request of the sister of King Tiridates II and used as a summer residence for Armenian royalty.
The Mithraeum of Osterburken could not be excavated bodily owing to the water of a well in the immediate neighbourhood. The monument had been covered carefully with sand.
Petrogeny from Santo Stefano Rotondo
Mosaic of Cautes and Cautopates in the Mitreo delle Sette Sfere
Altars of Dura Europos
Feast scene with Mithras and Sol from Ladenburg
Tauroctony from Dragus
Altar by Aurelius Eutyches from Siscia
Cautopates from Jajce
Mithras rock-born of Dobrosloveni
Tauroctony in Copenhagen
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The sculpture was found, according to its discoverer, next to the western wall that delimits the impluvium…
Dear Veronica, as a woman you cannot attend the ceremonies in the mithraeum. But you can help prepare the feast…
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Merci pour l'information, Zi. En effet, la sculpture jointe faisait partie d'un autre ensemble.
Probably at home... but I’m at work. ;-) Will get back to you.
Welcome Veronica 💫
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??? Is this an actual mithraeum?
Interesting that the couch's covering isn't recognizable as the slain bull, though I'm not sure I…
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