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The many lives of Mithras

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?

Andreu Abuín

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Some places to visit

  • Mount Nemrut Dağı

    Mount Nemrut or Nemrud is one of the highest peaks in the eastern Taurus Mountains, southeastern Turkey. On its summit large statues stand around what is supposed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BC.

     
  • Zeus Brontoon sanctuary near Villa dei Quintili

    Mithras and other oriental gods were worshipped in the shrine of Zeus near the Villa of the Quintilians in Rome.

     
  • Mitreo di Sabazio

    The Mithraeum of Sabazeus 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.

     
  • Mithräum I von Güglingen

    Mithraeum I in Güglingen, Landkreis Heilbronn (Baden-Württemberg).

     

Sententia

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The New Mithraeum

Thank you for sharing, much appreciated

on Slab of Quintus Claudius from Santiponce

 

Martin Owen

We don’t have a website but we do have a Facebook page as the Longthorpe Legion, so please have a look and see what we do.

on Martin

 

Dominique PERSOONS

here is the altar of Sarrebourg , picture tooken in 1890.

on Tauroctony from Sarrebourg

 

Jorge Gallo

I think there is no trace of this mithraeum since long time ago...

on Mithréum de Vienne

 

Jorge Gallo

If this phallus really belonged to the mithraeum where it is currently placed and not elsewhere…

on Phallus relief from the Mithraeum of Tiddis

 

The New Mithraeum

y un cuarto por encima del 3º

on a post

 

Aleš Chalupa

I’m working on this inscription, and I’m not sure if you’ve understood and translated it correctly…

on Terentius Priscus

 

The New Mithraeum

Great shot! Thanks for sharing, Pattie. We’d need a reference though, not go our entire database ;…

on a post

 

The New Mithraeum

Gratias Pattie!

on Petrogeny with hand on head from Nida

 
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