Dominique Persoons proposes a reconstruction of Mithraic ritual based on archaeological remains, frescoes, and zodiacal symbolism. He interprets the mithraeum as a liturgical microcosm governing the ...

Son of Aurelius Victor Augentius, grandson of Nonius Victor Olympius, and elder brother of Emlianus. He built temples for worship around 382-383. Qui cum caelicolis parcus bona dividit heres?. To ...

He was a soldier of the Cohors I Belgarum, probably of Dalmatian origin, who dedicated an altar to Mithras in Aufustianis. Solin is a town in Dalmatia, Croatia, developed on the location of ancient ...

Interactive map highlighting most of the Mithras shrines, featuring descriptions and links to further information.

Relief in grey limestone (H. 0.59 Br. 0.825 D. 0.10) from the Repovic mountains. It is sculptured on two sides and it was found near A. Sarajevo, Archaeological Museum. Probably 4th cent. A.D. 1) ...

Nowadays, most Western scholars agree that the Roman mysteries of Mithras have little, if any, relation to the Iranian and Indian cult of the same god. Still, it is always interesting to recall when, ...

According to Ernst Renan, the renowned 19th-century historian of religion and philologist, if the Roman world had not become Christian, it would be Mithraic today. This controversial premise also ...

The first documented mentions of the Mithraic cult in Europe, with allusions to Eastern-named gods, profuse and unmistakable iconography, and dark, subterranean temples, appear from the end of the 1st ...

Table of references for mithraic artefacts Cross-database references to monuments, inscriptions and other artefacts related to the Cult of Mithras.

White marble relief (H. 1.15 Br. 0.35). Galleria degli Uffizi. On a restored base a standing Aion with lion's head. His body is entwined by six windings of a serpent, which lays its head on that of ...

Altar in red sandstone (H. 0.768 Br. 0.435 D. 0.235). Upon the altar a sacrificing dish between two volutes. In the centre of the front is a square hole (0.14), which could be covered by a glass plate ...

Statue in sandstone (H. 0.62 Br. 0.275 D. 0.80-0.15) found near g. Darmstadt, Museum. Standing torchbearer in Eastern dress and cross-Iegged. In both hands he holds a ...