Peter Mark Adams challenges current academic conventions by restoring the term ‘mysteries’ to the cult of Mithras while offering a deep, well-informed, and nuanced point of view. His new book, ‘Ritual ...

On a field next to the bullring, a house appeared which, because of some of the peculiarities that we will describe and the ancient sculptural findings of the bullring, was called the House of the ...

TNMM 1023 CIMRM 459. Fresco in an arched niche (H. 1.80 Br. 1.10) above the right bench. Mithras, dressed in purple tunic with long sleeves and anaxyrides, wears on his head the Phrygian cap, of which ...

TNMM 804. This fragment of a sculpture, measuring 48 x 45 cm, depicts Mithras emerging from a rock, accompanied by serpent motifs. Discovered in Aquileia, Italy, it is now preserved in the Museo ...

TNMM 790 CIMRM 2375. Dr. A. J. Ohrenberger, Ein Weihalter aus Illmitz (Bez.Neusiedl am See) in Burgenländische Heimatblätter XXII, 1960, 3ff and fig.; (cf. PAR 1960 ...

TNMM 782 CIMRM 360. In ecclesia S. Martini in Montibus, ara rotunda sertis a cranis bubulis dependentibus circundata. (In the church of S. Martino ai Monti [Basilica dei Santi Silvestro e Martino ai ...

This altar found in Lambèse, now Tazoult, Algeria, bears the inscription of a certain Celsianus for the health of two men to the god Sol Unconquered Mithras.

The Roman settlement overlooked a passage between the Hodna and the Sahara via the Aïn Rich plain and the valley of the Oued Chaïr, between the Ouled-Naïl and Zab mountains. El Gahra (or ...

This altar is dedicated to the god Sol Invictus Mithras by a certain Florus, a veteran of the Legio III Augusta.

TNMM 776. This inscription was erected in the late 3rd century by the senior provincial governor of Numidia, Marcus Aurelius Decimus, vir perfectissimus, who dedicated it to the invincible god Sol ...

TNMM 774. Roman, Imperial period, c. 3rd century AD. An enticing marble relief depicting Mithras killing a sacred bull. Dressed in a tunic, Mithras is depicted in the traditional manner, kneeling over ...

The mithraeum at Sárkeszi is remarkable for its size and unique architectural features. Measuring approximately 23x10 metres, it is one of the largest mithraea in the Pannonian region, surpassed only ...