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Indeed, Stephen. The catalogue is highly recommendable for all audiences, academic, professional and the simply curious. By the way, some of its articles can be found on this very site thanks to the generous support of the publisher, the Musée Royal Mariemont.
The exhibition The Mystery of Mithras opens at the Mariemont Museum in Belgium, home of Franz Cumont, the father of studies on the solar god.
This gold coin depicts Kanishka I on one side and Mithras standing on the other side.
Founder of the Arasacid dynasty, Tiridates I was crowned king of Armenia by Nero in 66.
These bronze medallions associates the image of several Roman emperors with that of Mithras, usually as a rider, in the province Pontus.
Franz Cumont considers the bas relief of Osterburken 'the most remarkable of all the monuments of the cult of Mithras found up to now'.
This relief is so well-known that it has been reproduced in nearly every handbook of archaeology and of history of religions.
This remarkable double-sided relief depicts the myth of Mithras and the Tauroctony on one side, and a scene of Mithras the hunter and the banquet of Mithras and the Sol on the other.
Danube region can be traced back to the legions that fought under his command in Armenia.
Slave on a farm in Valentia, Hispania, who dedicated an altar to the invincible Mithras.
Fifth Roman emperor and last of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, reigning from 54 until his death in 68.
The Mitreo delle terme di Caracalla is one of the largest temple devoted to Mithras found in Rome so far.
This intaglio with Mithras killing the bull on one side and Kabiros on the other was probably used as a magical amulet.
This heliotrope gem, depicting Mithras slaying the bull, dates from the 2nd-3rd century, but was reused as an amulet in the 13th century.
This intaglio depicting Mithras killing the bull is preserved at the Bibliothèque national de France.
This silver amulet depicts Abraxas on one side and the first verses of the Book of Genesis in Hebrew on the other.
This syncretic amulet depicting Abraxas and the word MIΘPAZ was once displayed in the Cappello Museum of Venice.
Gnostic amulet found Ancient Agora of Athens depicting Abraxas on one side and a mithraic inscription on the other
This intaglio portrays Mithra slaying the bull on one side, and a lion with a bee, around seven stars, and inscription, on the other.
This relief of Mithras slaying the bull was erected in Piazza del Campidoglio, moved to Villa Borghese and is now in the Louvre Museum.
The Mithraeum located in Piazza Dante in Rome was discovered in 1874 along with a series of monuments dedicated by a Pater named Primus.