Although the Persian version of the origins of Mithraism (particularly due to the early works of Franz Cumont and his ...

A ceremonial gold helmet belonging to the Getic elite, discovered at Coțofenești in present-day Romania and dated to the 4th century BCE. Both cheek-pieces bear an unusual sacrificial scene showing an ...

Csaba Szabó is a historian specializing in ancient history and religious studies, focusing on the Danubian provinces of the Roman Empire. Born in Szatmárnémeti, Romania, he studied history and ...

On the relief the front of a temple is represented: two columns with capitals, supporting a tympanum. Between the columns a representation of Mithras’ rockbirth. In his l.h. the youthful, naked god ...

Fragment of a relief in red sandstone (H. 0.19 Br. 0.29 D. 0.08), found at Dieburg in the Frankfurterstrasze. Inv. No. II A 17. Behn, 6 and fig. 4. See fig. 333. The upper corner with four busts of ...

White marble relief (H. 0.44 Br. 0.55), the r. upper corner of which is missing. 'Ritrovato incassato in un muro della stabile dei Signori Eredi Chiocchini in Pisa' (Lasinio). The inventary from 1883 ...

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 ...

The Mehr temple is located near the Verjuy village of Marāgheh (eastern Azerbāijān region) and was the place of worship of Mithras. It dates back to the time of the Parthians and is a stone-rock ...

This altar was dedicated by a certain Marcus Aurelius Decimus to Sol Mithras and other gods in Diana, Numibia, present Argelia. Iovi optimo / maximo luno/ni reginae Min/ervae sanctae / Soli Mithrae / ...

Right lower corner of a marble relief from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving the border of the grotto and, outside it, Luna in a two-horse chariot holding a whip; only the horses' ...

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 ...

Aelia Arisuth was a woman buried at Oea, modern Tripoli, in a richly decorated rock-cut tomb dating to the late third or early fourth century CE. Together with the neighbouring burial of Aelius Magnus ...