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  • Notitia

    Los dioses de Egipto y Persia que los romanos honraron en Lucus Augusti

    La Domus de Mitreo y el Centro Arqueolóxico de San Roque muestran otra cara del viejo Lugo
  • Liber

    Images of Mithra (2017)

    With a history of use extending back to Vedic texts of the second millennium BC, derivations of the name Mithra appear in the Roman Empire, across Sasanian Persia, and in the Kushan Empire of southern Afghanistan and northern India during the first millen…
  • Liber

    El sentido de la unidad. La tradición sufí­ en la arquitectura persa (2007)

    El sentido de la unidad, del arquitecto Nader Ardalan y de la experta en mundo islámico y sufismo Laleh Bakhtiar, es el primer estudio sobre la arquitectura del Islam en el contexto persa. A lo largo de la historia musulmana, Persia ha sido uno de los ce…
  • 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'.

    TNMM176 – CIMRM 1292, 1293

    D[eo] S[oli] I[nvicto] M[ithrae] M[er?]catorius Castrensis in suo cons[ituit].
  • Monumentum

    Fragments of a column base from Hamadan

    The base of the column bears an inscription that records the rebuilding of a palace at Ectabana 'by the favour of Ahuramaza, Anahita and Mithra'.

    TNMM127 – CIMRM 8

  • Monumentum

    Lion relief from Nemrut Dag

    The lion relief from Nemrut Dag has the moon and several stars over his body.

    TNMM302 – CIMRM 31

    Πυρόεις Ηρακλέους, στίλβων Απόλλωνος, Φαέθων Δίος
  • Liber

    The Mithraic Prophecy (2022)

    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.
  • Liber

    The Poison King. The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy (2010)

    Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against poison. His life inspired Mozart’s first opera, while for centuries poets and playwrights recited bloody, romantic tales of his victories, defeats, intrigues…
  • Syndexios

    Valerian

    Roman emperor from 253 to 260, he was taken captive by Shapur I of Persia. He was thus the first emperor to be captured as a prisoner of war.
  • Syndexios

    Antiochus I

    King of the Greco-Iranian Kingdom of Commenage