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The New Mithraeum Database tagged with venus

Mithraic monuments, temples and other objects related to Mithras and tagged with venus.

Your search venus gave 14 results.

 
  • 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

    Parménide, au-delà  de l'existence (2018)

    Parménide est un des plus grands sages de l'Occident, son poème un des textes les plus commentés de la philosophie de Platon à Heidegger. Parménide vécut à la fin du VIe siècle dans cette région du sud de l'Italie qu'on appelle la Grande Grèce. …
  • Liber

    The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire. Mysteries of the Unconquered Sun (2007)

    Roger Beck describes Mithraism from the point of view of the initiate engaging with the religion and its rich symbolic system in thought, word, ritual action, and cult life.
  • Liber

    Les Religions orientales dans le paganisme romain (1963)

    CUMONT (Franz) Les Religions orientales dans le paganisme romain. Paris, Librairie orientaliste Geuthner 1963, 336 et 16 planches hors-texte ; rééd anastatique de la 4e édition (1929) On se réjouit de posséder nouveau ce grand livre. Certes notre…
  • Monumentum

    Frescoes with standing figures of Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte

    The frescoes depict several figures dressed in different garments associated with the Mithraic degrees.

    TNMM104 – CIMRM 268

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony bronze of Szőny

    Szony's bronze plate shows Mithra slaying the bull and the seven planets with attributes at the bottom of the composition.

    TNMM334 – CIMRM 1727

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Bologna

    The relief of Mithras killing the bull of Bologna depicts several scenes of the mithraic myth.

    TNMM325 – CIMRM 693

  • Notitia

    Porphyry’s Cave of Nymphs
    and the Cult of Mithras

    Between the 1st and 4th centuries, Mithraism developed throughout the Roman world. Much material exists, but textual evidence is scarce. The only ancient work that fills this gap is Porphyry’s intense and complex essay.
  • 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

    Krater with weekday gods of Trier

    The vase bears an inscription to the god but also 'king' Mithras.

    TNMM419

    Deo [R]egi Cupiti[…] / d(ono) d(edit)