Exploring religion, rituals, archaeological insights, and historical impact of the Cult of Mithras in the Danubian provinces.
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
Press clips
Archaeologists at Doliche are now excavating houses around the vast Mithras temple to learn how people lived beside the sanctuary.
Newsroom
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.
P Sufenas Virius Lupus
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 Mithra Temple of Maragheh, also referred to as the Mithra Temple of Verjuy or simply Mehr Temple, is the oldest surviving Mithraic temple in Iran known to date.
The floor of the central aisle of the Mithraeum of the Footprint in Ostia has a mosaic depicting a snake and a footprint.
The Mithraeum in the Chapel of the Three Naves was not linked to the cult of Mithras until recently because of a mosaic showing a pig, in the belief that it was an animal unfit for consumption in a temple of Eastern origin.
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.
Tauroctony in the British Museum
Tauroctony from Capri
Inscription of two Gessius from Sentinum
Prostrate figure fresco of Capua Vetere
Mosaics from Mitreo degli Animali
Tauroctonia de Carnuntum (III ?)
Tauroctony from Ruše
Mosaic of Fructus from the Mitreo del Sabazeo
CIMRM 826
Sententia
some pictures from 1895:
Merci pour l'information, Zi. En effet, la sculpture jointe faisait partie d'un autre ensemble.
Souls enter Cancer and follow the cycle of the moon passing in front of the altar…
CIMRM 2170 [ref:69cac135b3073]
So... you *were* an owner, like me, prior to being hacked. Why don’t you start another group?…
on Pattie
Thank you for noticing. Indeed, the title did not correspond to the article, which is actually…
on CIMRM 110
I live in Sarrebourg, where the famous mithraeum was found by the Germans in 1890…
This is a great Mithraeum and a obliged visit if you go to Roma. It is located below San Clemente…
The modern Masonic lodge is organised around the starry vault, but the officers are still arranged…
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