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
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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.
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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 was found in one of the rooms of the Horrea built in the years 120 - 125 AD. The installation of the shrine may have taken place in the first half of the third century.
The first members of the Wiesloch Mithraeum may have been veterans from Ladenburg and Heidelberg.
The Mithraeum of Cyrene is preserved among the remarkable ruins of the ancient capital of the Roman province of Cyrene.
Tauroctony from La Bâtie-Montsaléon
Lion-headed Aion from Sidon
Four mithraic engravings from Veterum Persarum et Parthorum et Medorum Religionis Historia
Tauroctonia de Córdoba
Inscription of Olympus to his grandfather
Cautopates of Sarmizegetusa with scorpion
Statue of a mother goddess with child
Tauroctony relief from Apulum
Altar to Petra Genetrix from Carnuntum
Sententia
Dear Csaba , I am fascinated by your slab of Mithras with Cautes wearing a child in front of the bull…
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Please be critical! As you can see, this article was written a long time ago and only quotes an article from https://www…
Is the Date on the side correct? I guess it’s not 32 cm but 3,6 cm. Or am I wrong?
Better image from Mitrei Ostia. What we need is a road trip to go see it ourselves. I call shot gun!!
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Welcome Nathalie. You can contact members who allow it by clicking on the arrow icon at the top right of their profile.
Añadido al sitio, aquí: https://www.mithraeum.eu/notitia/the-discourse-on-the-eighth-and-ninth-868…
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Can I ask you to visit the Ashmolean and take some pictures? ;-)
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