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These fragments of a monumental tauroctony found in the Cerro de San Albín must have decorated the Gran Mitreo de Mérida, which has not yet been found.
The Mitreo delle terme di Caracalla is one of the largest temples dedicated to Mithras ever found in Rome.
Este estudio pone al día el conocimiento sobre un aspecto peculiar de la religiosidad romana en las provincias hispanas.
Este libro es la tercera entrega de una trilogía dedicada al estudio de la implantación en la Península Ibérica de los cultos destinados a dioses que, procedentes originalmente de Oriente, se transforman profundamente en su recepción en Roma y...
MA Visual and Material Culture at Warwick University; British School at Rome City of Rome 2022. First class BA Hons Ancient History and Classical Archaeology.
Although this building is not a Mithraeum, archaeologists have found several monuments related to the cult of Mithras.
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.
The Villa del Mitreo or Casa del Mitra takes its name from the discovery of a Mithras Tauroctonus in the vicinity.
MA Classics & Ancient Civilizations, Teacher of Classics, Epigraphist
Amazing!!!
The Mithraeum of Cabra is located in the Villa del Mitra, which owes its name to the discovery in 1951 of a Mithras tauroctonus in the remains of the Roman villa.
New excavations in the Villa del Mitra (Nov 22-February 23) have provided a room with benches and cooked bones. No doubt it is the mithraem where the taurochtony was located. The sculpture was found 10m away from the spelaeum.
The Mithraeum of Cabra is located in the Villa del Mitra, which owes its name to the discovery in 1951 of a Mithras tauroctonus in the remains of the Roman villa.
Archaeologist, working on the metallfinds of the Mithraeum of Kempraten, CH.
I have listed all the novels about Mithras and Mithraism that I know of. Do you know any others? Crypto-Mithraic would also work!
Did Apuleius explain his very own initiation into the Mysteries of Mithras in The Golden Ass? Apuleius' The Golden Ass is one of the most famous and entertaining novels of antiquity. Among his adventures, Lucius is initiated into the mysteries of Isis. Some scholars claim that Apuleius used the Egyptian cult to conceal his own involvement in the secret cult of Mithras.
An unusual feature of this very ancient relief is that Cautopates carries a cockerel upside down, while Cautes carries it right-side up.
This inscription mentions a Pater for the first known time.