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 first members of the Wiesloch Mithraeum may have been veterans from Ladenburg and Heidelberg.
The Sárkeszi mithraeum is unusual for its large dimensions and its semicircular eastern wall.
The large number of monuments found at the Mithraeum of Sarmizegetusa and the sheer size of the temple are unusual.
The Roman villa of Can Molodell had a sanctuary that has been related to the cult of Mithras.
Tauroctony from Dormagen
Altar by Aelius Secundinus of Novaria
Mithras riding the bull
Cautes of Sisak
Altar of Carnuntum by the Augusti and Caesares
Tauroctony from the Mitreo delle terme di Mitra
Mithras petrogenitus from Villa Giustiniani
Incensiary vessel of Dieburg
Bronze Venus of Sidon
Sententia
This is not a mithraic feast. It is part of a christian sarcophagus, on the left is a representation of Noah…
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Original is now in the Ötzi Museum in Bozen, but still not part of an exhibition. Lit…
CIMRM 382
Salve Martin and welcome to The New Mithraeum! Feel free to share your website for anyone interested in your great project!
on Martin
some pictures from 1895:
It’s like I’m being followed... but in a good way. ^__^
on CIMRM 1694
The journey of the soul in the Mithraic ritual: hypothesis of resurrection or reincarnation…
on Mithraeum at Santa Maria Capua Vetere. Revisited in February 2026
I kinda see a pineapple...
on CIMRM 1743
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