Rock-cut tauroctony forming the cult image of Mithraeum I at Doliche, later deliberately defaced by Christian iconoclasts.

For those that are ready to wield the Herculean club, conquering inner and outer labors! Just like the Homeric Odyssey is a sacred text allegorizing the journey of the soul to Penelope, the ...

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) ...

Twelve centuries separate the decline of Roman Mithraism from the dawn of Freemasonry. Twelve centuries during which the mysteries of Mithras have remained more secret than ever.

Six marble fragments discovered in 1901 in the Second Mithraeum of Poetovio. The surviving pieces include the knee of Mithras and a serpent beneath the bull from a tauroctony relief, as well as ...

Leading member of the Ostian Mithraic community, holder of the titles pater, sacerdos and antistes. Small marble base recording a donation to M. Cerellio Hieronymo, pater and sacerdos, on behalf of an ...

Severan governor and commander of Legio VII Gemina, associated with the religious milieu that fostered the rise of Mithraic communities in north-western Hispania. The inscription has traditionally ...

Titus Atilius Glyco was a Roman citizen of Ostia, identified by his filiation and enrolment in the Palatine tribe. During the second half of the second century CE, he dedicated an earlier marble ...

Bench mosaics of the Mitreo delle Sette Sfere 609 241 Zodiac signs on the Mitreo delle Sette Sfere 610 242 Mosaic of Cautes and Cautopates in the Mitreo delle Sette Sfere 608 243 Two tuff altars with ...

Junia Zosime is known from an inscription discovered at Ostia recording the donation of a silver statue of the Virtus of the dendrophori. Although the inscription was found in the so-called Mithraeum ...

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 ...

Tablet of terracotta. Together with the following No. from a grave at Glinitschtsche, Kertsch. Formerly at Leningrad, Ermitage, dep. Kertsch No. 893d; actually Museum Odessa (H. 0.139 Br. 0.105).