We propose to revisit a passage by the prolific author Marteen Vermaseren that highlights correspondences today forgotten between the Roman Mithras and its Eastern counterparts.
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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.
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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 votive altar referring to the cult of Mithras was found more than forty years before the site was excavated and the Mithraeum discovered.
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 Biesheim-Kunheim is located near the ancient village of Altkirch, near the Rhin.
Mithras became the main deity worshipped in the sanctuary of Meter in Kapikaya, Turkey, in Roman times, at least until the fourth century.
Tauroctony on display in Princeton
Altar of Gaius Iulius Crescens of Friedberg for Respectus
Taurcotony of Secundinus
Tauroctony from Memphis
Altar at Caseggiato di Diana
Tauroctony on intaglio
Altar of Benifayó
Tauroctony found on the Esquiline
Roman Marble Relief Panel with Birth of Mithras
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Añadido al sitio, aquí: https://www.mithraeum.eu/notitia/the-discourse-on-the-eighth-and-ninth-868…
Thank you, Pattie. I’ll take a look at those balls and find the right place for them ;)
Thank you, Jaime, for your clarification of this monument, previously identified as Mithraic…
hello @dominique.persoons This sphere with a single circle is quite unusual in Mithraic iconography…
Here, does the bas-relief come from Ptuj, or from Frankfurt-Heddernheim?
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And what about the lily-like flower? Is it just me, or does it look like a opium poppy?
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I live in Sarrebourg, where the famous mithraeum was found by the Germans in 1890…
Not sure it’s on diplay but I’d never say no to a trip to Ostia Antica!
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