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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
 
 
Dec 2023
NewMonumentum

Engraved column by Maximus of Dura Europos

A certain Maximus from the Legio IV Scythica engraved his name in one of the columns of the Mithraeum of Dura Europos.

 
Dec 2023
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Corbulo

Danube region can be traced back to the legions that fought under his command in Armenia.

 
Dec 2023
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Kastos (father)

Together with his son, with whom he shares his name, Kastos has dedicated several monuments in Rome to the glory of Zeus Helios Mithras.

 
Dec 2023
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Kastos (son)

Together with his father, Kastos dedicated several monuments in Rome to the glory of Zeus Helios Mithras.

 
Dec 2023
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Cautes of the mitreo di Santa Prisca

The marble statue of Cautes, found in the Mithraeum of Santa Prisca, was originally a Mercury.

 
Dec 2023
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Lucius Petreius Victor

Garlic merchant, probably from Lusitania, who dedicated an altar to Cautes in Tarraconensis.

 
Dec 2023
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Euthices

Freedman, he offered a monument to Mithras for the well-being of his two former masters in Apulum.

 
Dec 2023
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Mitreo della domus del capitello

Archaeologists discovered the 20th temple dedicated to Mithras in Ostia during the restoration of the domus del Capitello di stucco in 2022.

 
Nov 2023
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Secundinus

Imperial slave and head of the customs statio of Esca in Noricum.

 
Nov 2023
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The Mithraic Prophecy

Why did the Romans worship a Persian god? This book presents a new reading of the Mithraic iconography taking into account that the cult had a prophecy.

 
Nov 2023
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Mithras – Miθra – Mitra

Der römische Gott Mithras aus der Perspektive der vergleichenden Religionsgeschichte.

 
Nov 2023
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Aphrodisius Corneliorum

Aphrodisius, probably of Greek origin, must have been a slave of the Cornelii.

 
Nov 2023
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Rufius Caeionius Sabinus

Senator and Pater Sacrorum of Mithras, who consecrated several monuments in Rome in the late 4th century.

 
Nov 2023
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Altar of Rufius Caecinius Sabinus

In this 4th-century Roman altar, a certain Rufius Caecinius Sabinus defines himself as Pater of the sacred rites of the unconquered Mithras, having undergone the taurobolium.

 
Nov 2023
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Tauroctony on intaglio

Large intaglio engraved with Mithras as bull slayer surrounded by a peculiar version of Cautes and Cautopates and other celestial deities.

 
Nov 2023
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Pinnes

He was a soldier of the Cohors I Belgarum, probably of Dalmatian origin, who dedicated an altar to Mithras in Aufustianis.

 
Nov 2023
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Altar of Tihaljina

This altar, discovered in Grude, near Tihaljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, bears an inscription by Pinnes, a soldier of the Cohors Prima Belgica.

 
Nov 2023
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Roman Mithraism: the Evidence of the Small Finds

Papers of the international conference "Roman Mithraism: the Evidence of the Small Finds". Tienen 7-8 November 2001.

 
Nov 2023
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Altar of Adiectus from Carnuntum

There is no consensus as to whether the altar of the slave Adiectus from Carnuntum is dedicated to a Mithras genitor of light.

 
Nov 2023
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Iulius Rasci

Roman citizen who dedicated an altar to the invincible Mithras in Teutoburgium.