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The New Mithraeum

Community dedicated to the study, disclosure and reenactment of the Mysteries of Mithras since 2004.

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Joined December 2020
 
 
May 2023
Monumentum

Mithras rock-birth of Mithraeum III, Ptuj

Cautes and Cautopates attend the birth of Mithras from the rock in the Petrogenia of the third Mithraeum of Ptuj.

 
May 2023
Syndexios

Gaius Sacidius Barbarus

Centurion who dedicated the first known Latin inscription to the invincible Mithras.

 
 
May 2023
Syndexios

Flavios Gerontios

Pater nominos at Sidon Mithraeum.

 
 
May 2023
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Neuenheim

The Tauroctony relief of Neuenheim, Heidelberg, includes several scenes from the deeds of Mithras and other gods.

 
May 2023
Monumentum

Mithras riding a horse from Neuenheim

Mithras galloping, in a cypress forest, carrying a globe in one hand and accompanied by a lion and a snake.

 
May 2023
Monumentum

Mount Nemrut Dağı

Mount Nemrut or Nemrud is one of the highest peaks in the eastern Taurus Mountains, southeastern Turkey. On its summit large statues stand around what is supposed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BC.

 
May 2023
Monumentum

Head of Mithras from the Mithraeum of Angers

The head of Mithras of Angers has been found a four months after the main relief.

 
Look at that the satisfaction of that man who's showing that discover during the time the sanctuar of Mithra from Angers (back) is destroted ! It's archéological pillaing !
 
Requi
Just read why they decided to continue to dig under the mithraeum before complaining: http://www.angers.maville.com/actu/actudet_-Et-le-dieu-Mithra-sortit-du-ventre-de-la-terre..._loc-1531774_actu.Htm They found more about the site history in doing so !
 
May 2023
Syndexios

Mercatorius Castrensis

Offered the famous Tauroctony of Osterburken to the unconquerable sun god Mithras.

 
 
May 2023
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Osterburken

Franz Cumont considers the bas relief of Osterburken 'the most remarkable of all the monuments of the cult of Mithras found up to now'.

 
I would humbly suggest that #6 on the left might be a representation of Narcissus, having fallen in love with his own reflection, the disfigured object in his hand might be a narcissus flower and the confusing object resembling a Chlamys upon which he is resting might be the depiction of the pool where he saw his reflection. What strikes me is the inclusion among the left side sequence of specific figures and their primary mythic stories, which had psychological and cautionary moral messages. From the combination of depictions in the entire Tauroctony, the Mithras cult appears to be a new 'revelation' or addition to the traditional Greek religious system, amalgamating Babylonian Astrology, Greco-Roman mythology and some new 'Persian' mythos.
 
May 2023
Monumentum

Mithräum von Osterburken

The Mithraeum of Osterburken could not be excavated bodily owing to the water of a well in the immediate neighbourhood. The monument had been covered carefully with sand.

 
May 2023
Syndexios

Titus Flavius Hyginus Ephebianus

Freedman who dedicated the first monument mentioning a Pater.

 
 
May 2023
Syndexios

Hector Corneliorum

Hector erected an altar to Mithras in Emerita Augusta 'by means of a divine vision', something unusual in Hispania.

 
 
May 2023
Syndexios

Marcus Antonius Victorinus

Founder of the second Mithraeum of Aquincum.

 
 
May 2023
Monumentum

Aion of Arles

The Aion of Arles includes nine signs of the zodiac in three groups of three, between the spirals of the serpent.

 
May 2023
Monumentum

Antiochus I shakes hands with naked Apollo-Mithras-Helios

Stele representing Apollo-Mithras-Helios in a Hellenistic nude fashion, shaking hands with Antiochus I.

 
May 2023
Monumentum

Bronze inscription from Aldobrandini

This plaque, now on display in the British Museum, may have come from the Aldobrandini Mithraeum in Ostia.

 
April 2023
Monumentum

Gnostic amulet with Mithras monogram

This silver amulet depicts Abraxas on one side and the first verses of the Book of Genesis in Hebrew on the other.

 
April 2023
Syndexios

Martius Martialis

Pater who offered several monuments, including a temple, in Augusta Treverorum, now Trier.

 
 
April 2023
Monumentum

Altar with Phrygian cap of Trier

The altar with a Phrygian cap and a dagger from Trier was erected by a Pater called Martius Martialis.

 
April 2023
NewMonumentum

Cautes of Trier

This remarkable relief by Cautes was found in what appears to be a mithraeum in Trier.