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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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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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 city of Hatra was famed for its fusion of several civilization cults, which several temples devoted to gods from all Indo-European world.
The Mithraeum of Tazoult / Lambèse is one of the best preserved Mithras’s temples in Africa.
The Mithraeum of Spoleto was found in 1878 by the professor Fabio Gori on behalf of Marquis Filippo Marignoli, owner of the land.
The House of the Mithraeum of the Painted Walls was built in the second half of the 2nd century BC (opus incertum) and modified during the Augustan period.
Tauroctony from Circo Massimo
Tauroctonia de Córdoba
Intaglio with Mithras and Abraxas at the Walters Art Museum
Aion altar of Bordeaux
Votive plaque from Ballıhisar
Tauroctony sculpture in the Sala dei Animali
Inscription of Victorinus from Tibur
Key of Mithraeum III at Nida
Cautes and Cautopates of Friedberg
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And don’t forget the keys he’s carrying, another clear clue to his role...
Les pupilles de dieu sont formees d’un email blanc. Dang! I wish this wasn’t lost!! ;__;
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It is magnificent. so better if you had a picture of the inside.
Visited 2 times. Different stone type also.
Good information
I think it would be helpful to include visiting information... I’m under the impression that some…
Another angle of the sanctuary, showing its open layout toward the road.
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1899-1201-3 If this piece could be added, too, please…
Glad to hear, Joel. Feel free to send some pics!
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