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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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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A Mithraeum was discovered in 2007, during the excavations at the Zerzevan Castle.
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 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.
The Mithraeum was housed in a cave. The vault is almost dome-shaped and in front of the cave there is enough space for a possible adjacent temple.
Altar in Mitreo di Marino
Tauroctony from Neuenheim
Two-sided relief of Dieburg
Plaque of Meknès
Aion of Florence
Tauroctony by Raffaello Sanzio
Cautes and Cautopates of Palermo
Denarius depicting Mithras rock-birth of St. Albans
Tauroctony from Santiponce
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This is a great Mithraeum and a obliged visit if you go to Roma. It is located below San Clemente…
It is ironic that the logo of "the new mithraeum" represents the Platonic cosmic chiasma
Any clue why this "counts" as two different CIMRM numbers?
Same here!
Thank you, Pattie. We have automatically added a number of references that indeed need revision!
on CIMRM 418
what exactly does it mean to be an "owner of a facebook group".. I set up a facebook group on…
on Pattie
Many thanks, Ines. Both pages have been merged.
i want more!
on Scotia
Presumably, this camay served as a buffer, so it was depicted upside down, with the moon on the…
on Intaglio with Mithras and Abraxas at the Walters Art Museum
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