Lenni George on Hekate’s development across ancient traditions, from mystery cults to magical practice and philosophical thought.
Notitiae
On what Hekate’s name may or may not tell us, and why the uncertainty matters.
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.
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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.
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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.
Agencia
The Mithraeum of Tazoult / Lambèse is one of the best preserved Mithras’s temples in Africa.
This shrine developed towards the end of 2nd century and remained active until beginning 4th.
The Mithraeum of the House of Diana was installed in two Antonine halls, northeast corner of the House of Diana, in the late 2nd or early 3rd century.
Mount Nemrut or Nemrud is one of the highest peaks in the eastern Taurus Mountains, southeastern Turkey. On its summit large statues stand around what is supposed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BC.
Slab of Quintus Claudius from Santiponce
Grand camée de France
Tauroctony from Neuenheim
Plaque of Meknès
Tauroctony from Fellbach
Tauroctony from Memphis
Mithraic slab from the catacombs of Vibia
Inscription of Ision from Guberevac
Altar of Aelius Valerianus from Illmitz
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Dear Behzad, You are, of course quite right. That said, the earliest account of the tauroctony…
New excavations in the Villa del Mitra (Nov 22-February 23) have provided a room with benches and cooked bones…
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En effet, des très belles œuvres de l'Antiquité à découvrir à la BnF.
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It’s like I’m being followed... but in a good way. ^__^
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Yes Madame. Its a white marble statue (H. 0.93), found in 1952 in Fuente de la Piedras, community of Cabra (prov. Cordova)…
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The map entry seems to be wrong, nowhere near Saarbrücken
what’s the inventar number?
Many thanks, Ines. Both pages have been merged.
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