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 ...

Having recently joined this forum, I intend from time to time to contribute studies devoted to the mystery traditions of the ancient Mediterranean, with particular attention to the Greco-Roman world.

As a citizen of Poland who has studied the mysteries of Mithras for several years, and as part of a much longer, decades-long immersion in ancient Mediterranean mystery traditions together with ...

Preventive excavations at Stahlzwingerweg 6 revealed the remains of a wooden sanctuary. The significance of the structure became clear only after the combined analysis of all excavation phases. No ...

Mithraeum discovered in 1887–1888, located about 85 m north of the castellum at Ober-Florstadt, built on a hillside with a central aisle, benches, and an altar podium.

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 ...

Base in sandstone (H. 0.435 Br. 0.18 D. 0.082) in three fragments. Standing Cautes in Oriental dress and cross-legged on the front. He lifts a long burning torch in both hands. On the right side there ...

Fibula in bronze (L. 0.02). From Carnuntum. Museum Carnuntinum. Unpublished. See fig. 444. Standing Aion with lion’s head. He holds his hands under his chin. On its reverse a small ring.

Statue in sandstone (H. 0.60 Br. 0.44). Inv. No. I, 196. Naked Mithras, visible from the knees upwards, being born from the rock. The head and the arms are lost. Beside his right thigh there is the ...

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 ...

Relief in sandstone (H. 0.64 Br. 0.145). On a base a man walking to the r. with a kantharus in his r.h. His l. leg, his l. arm, his head and part of the vase are lost. Traces of a torques or of a ...

Triangle in yellow sandstone (H. 0.255 Br. base 0.26 D. 0.075). Formerly Coll. Häberlin, now Frankfurt, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte. Inv. No. 15795. A ...