Both of them were discovered in 1609 in the foundations of the façade of the church of San Pietro, Rome. M(atri) d(eum) m(agnae) I(deae) / et Attidi meno/tyranno ...

Aurelius Mithres was a slave of an emperor who released him for his services. He was a strator (στράτωρ), which literally means a person who keeps, harnesses and cares for a horse for another person.

On a field next to the bullring, a house appeared which, because of some of the peculiarities that we will describe and the ancient sculptural findings of the bullring, was called the House of the ...

This short animation traces one of the interpretations of the Mithras legend based on archaeological research.

Acta diurna is our Mithraic social stream for keeping up to date with what is happening in The New Mithraeum. Hello everybody. Does anyone know the opening hours of San Clemente in Rome? I went last ...

The predominantly military nature of the cult in the African provinces is certain. There are few Easterners or civilians attested, and of dedicators whose names we have on twenty-seven monuments ...

Marcus Aurelius Decimus was a prominent Roman official, vir perfectissimus, in the late 3rd century AD, serving as governor of Numidia around 284-285. He dedicated several monuments to various deities ...

Publilius Ceionius Caecina Albinus was a prominent Roman politician who lived in the middle of the 4th century AD. He is thought to have been one of the sons of Gaius Ceionius Rufius Volusianus ...

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During the first semester of his sophomore year at Crozer, King composed a paper for Enslin’s course on Greek religion, focusing on Mithraism. During the first semester of his sophomore year at Crozer ...

The present volume reconstructs the history of the mithraea of Güglingen. In addition, rich finds provide insight into hitherto unknown areas of the liturgical practice of the cult of Mithras. The ...

From page one, Nabarz showers the reader with dense historical information about the origins of Mithras, an ancient Persian protector god whose worship can be traced as far back as the second ...