Lenni George on Hekate’s development across ancient traditions, from mystery cults to magical practice and philosophical ...

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 conser/vatoribus suis Cae/lius ...

He was a plebeian citizen who dedicated a monument to the Unconquerable Sun, Mithras. A comrade of Charitinus, he was a freedman who consecrated an altar to Mithras for the emperors Philip the Arab ...

A dedicatory inscription that was found at Camboglanna Castle and dated to 201/300 proves that Ripanus was prefect. According to John Spaul, he was prefect of the Cohors II Tungrorum, which was ...

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

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 ...

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) ...

Fragment of an marble architrave (H. 0.19 Br. 0.67) found in 1899 in the Via della Fontana. The fragment has an inscription dedicated to Ahriman, to whom Lollianus Callinicus (et. No. 222) erected a ...

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

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 ...

White marble relief (H. 0.28 Br. 0.275 D. 0.025) found at Turda (Torda) in 1859. Museum at Cluj (Koloszvar = Klausenburg), Inv. No. 2580. Mithras as a bullkiller in a grotto; the raven is perched on ...