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.
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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.
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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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.
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The Sárkeszi mithraeum is unusual for its large dimensions and its semicircular eastern wall.
The name of the Mithraeum of the Seven Gates refers to the doors depicted in the mosaic that decorates the floor, symbolising the seven planets through which the souls of the initiates have to pass.
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.
The Mithraeum under the Basilica of San Clemente made part of a notable Roman house.
Tauroctony from Leonardo Agostini book
Tauroctony from Memphis
Inscription of Ision from Guberevac
Altar of Carnuntum by Sacidius Barbarus
Altar to Sol by brothers of Budaors
Relief of Aion on globe
Altar with inscription of Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale
Tauroctony from Stixneusiedl
Mithras Tauroctonus from private collection
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That’s a good excuse to open a discord server ;)
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Thanks for sharing such an important piece of information
Salve Pattie, In case you missed it, there is also a page on the mithraeum itself: https://www.mithraeum.…
Gratias Pattie!
New excavations in the Villa del Mitra (Nov 22-February 23) have provided a room with benches and cooked bones…
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We don’t have a website but we do have a Facebook page as the Longthorpe Legion, so please have a look and see what we do.
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