We speak with Israel Campos Méndez about questions that continue to divide scholars: what links the Indo-Iranian Mithra to the deity worshipped in the Roman Empire, and what do we really know about the origins of Roman Mithraism?
Notitiae
Arguments for interpreting the Tomb of the Elephant as a Mithraeum based on architectural archaeology, digital surveying and archaeoastronomy.
Labors of Hercules as planetary zodiacal initiations: model mystagogy. The alchemy of Herculean labors.
Lenni George on Hekate’s development across ancient traditions, from mystery cults to magical practice and philosophical thought.
On what Hekate’s name may or may not tell us, and why the uncertainty matters.
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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
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
On the occasion of the exhibition, the Royal Museum of Mariemont invites five experts from Europe to emulate the research on the cult of Mithras.
The floor of the central aisle of the Mithraeum of the Footprint in Ostia has a mosaic depicting a snake and a footprint.
A Mithraeum was discovered in 2007, during the excavations at the Zerzevan Castle.
The site of Ay-Todor in Crimea revealed a Roman camp, a temple with votive offerings, and a Mithraeum.
After Christianity was adopted, most pagan monuments were destroyed or abandoned. Garni, however, was preserved at the request of the sister of King Tiridates II and used as a summer residence for Armenian royalty.
Tauroctony relief from Şehitkamil (Gaziantep)
Torchbearer head from Heddernheim
Tauroctony relief from Oescus
Marble relief fragment of Mithras from Apulum
Bronze torchbearer from the Cabinet des Médailles
Marble statue of Cautopates from Intercisa
Terracotta krater from the Friedberg Mithraeum
Parthian dipinto from Dura-Europos
Fragmentary tauroctony from Kostolac
Sententia
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
I’m trying to understand the few remaining vestiges of Mithras. Barberini’s fresco proves that…
He does indeed have a life jacket; it was mandatory for the Romans.
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Honestly, thank you. Recognition helps.
on Sandstone base with Medusa and torchbearer from Carnuntum
Was working in the 2200s today and found an image of this tauroctony on Flickr…
On the basilica of Autun (1148) the journey is reversed: souls ascend to heaven by the Moon and…
I don’t understand why he needs a shower cap to go surfing.
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thank you, dominique!!
Thank you, Alejandro. I’ve just added a link to the article for anyone who’s interested.
