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.
There are references to two places of worship from Dieburg, whereby the Mithraeum, discovered in 1926.
The Mithraeum has found in a Roman building at the end of Attila Road, in Hévíz, Egregy
Two Mithras sanctuaries, which were located on the edge of the settlement, were excavated in Güglingen.
Roman building on the Aventine between the eastern side of S. Saba and Via Salvator, probably used as a Mithraeum at the end of the 4th century, with a long corridor bearing three semicircular niches and a large external basin.
Marble statues of Cautes and Cautopates from Rusicade
Stela of Mithras Invictus from Mandeure
Parthian dipinto from Dura-Europos
Altar to Petra Genetrix from Aquincum
Double-sided marble relief fragment from San Zeno
Marble tauroctony relief from Aix-en-Provence
Black jasper tauroctony from the Seyrig collection
Tauroctony relief from Ozd
Torchbearer head from Heddernheim
Sententia
Dear Professor Campos, Remarkable work, indeed! I have two modest reflexions to suggest:…
Vae tibi, qui sapientiam Magistri ignoras! Vere, ingenium Platonis in transpositione Babyloniorum…
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I’m trying to understand the few remaining vestiges of Mithras. Barberini’s fresco proves that…
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Thank you for your testimony, great! And then, a Mithras stele without the Sun is like Jesus without the cross…
https://www.mithraeum.eu/quaere.php?tag=oceanus
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
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
