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The Cult of Mithras in the Roman Provinces of Gaul (1974) On ne saurait qu'applaudir à l'idée qu'a eue V. J. Walters de faire le point des découvertes mithriaques en Gaule romaine. Son projet reste ...
To the great gods, Ulpius Egnatius Faventinus, clarissimus, public augur of the Roman people of the Quirites, sacred father and herald of the god Sol invincible Mithra, arch-herald of the god Liber, ...
Veturius (?) Dubitatus was a veteran, ex duplicarius, of ala I civium Romanorum. According to his name formula, J. Brunšmid concluded that he was of Celtic origin, but D. Pinterović argued that he was ...
Legend Preserved: Shrine partially preserved or reconstructed near its original site. Documented but unfound: Shrine recorded in sources but not physically located or destroyed. Disputed: Site ...
Jaime Alvar has set the standard with his trilogy on the cults of Mithras, Isis, Magna Mater and Atis in Hispania. His work is now essential for understanding this phenomenon in the Iberian Peninsula ...
TNMM 670 CIMRM 587 White marble statue (H. 1.25 Br. 1.33). At first in Rome, Villa Borghese, afterwards in the gardens of Fontainebleau, nowadays Paris, Louvre (cf. Inv. manuscript Louvre, No. 991).
Brothers, syndexioi or cultores of Mithras and other persons related to the Cult of Mithras in The New Mithraeum Database.
The first documented mentions of the Mithraic cult in Western Europe, with allusions to Eastern-named gods, profuse and unmistakable iconography, and dark, subterranean temples, appear from the end of ...
TNMM 634 CIMRM 2252 Guardian of the rules, the Pere is the one who celebrates the cult and directs the rites. Pater nomimus, he is also Pater sacrorum, as attested by several inscriptions from ...
A PhD in Egyptology, Laurent Bricault is a professor of Roman history at the Jean-Jaurès University in Toulouse. Since the beginning of his academic career, this leading figure of leonine character in ...
BSc Econ in Political Science and Intelligence Studies, born in Warsaw, PL, Researcher of Cults and Mysteries, a practicing Heathen since the age of 12.
TNMM 898 CIMRM 194 The mystagogus, dressed in a white tunica with red stripes, stands with one foot on the calfs of the kneeling myste, who holds his hands folded under his chin. Another person, ...