On what Hekate’s name may or may not tell us, and why the uncertainty matters.
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.
Mysteriesofmithras/sandbox
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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The Mithraeum of Tazoult / Lambèse is one of the best preserved Mithras’s temples in Africa.
The Mithraeum of Marino presents an unusually elongated structure with depictions from the Severian period.
According to Hitzinger remnants of animal bones were found in front of the relief of the Mithraeum at Rozanec.
The Sárkeszi mithraeum is unusual for its large dimensions and its semicircular eastern wall.
CIMRM 625
Intaglio with Tauroctony from The Met
Mithras sacrificing the bull at Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Altar to Sol by brothers of Budaors
Slab of S. Urban by Ursinus
Flavius Aper altar (CIMRM 1584)
Mithraic relief of Baden bei Wien
Incensiary vessel of Dieburg
Candelabrum of Caernarfon
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Thank you for the beautiful image and the information. I haven’t had the chance to visit it yet…
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Salve Pattie, In case you missed it, there is also a page on the mithraeum itself: https://www.mithraeum.…
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Mmmm… do you mean this one?
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I guess the author has made a mistake. The so called Casa del Mitreo has not provided any document related to Mithras cult…
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Thank you for the beautiful image and the information. I haven’t had the chance to visit it yet…
Can I ask you to visit the Ashmolean and take some pictures? ;-)
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