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 ...

The person who dedicated this altar, Titus Tettius Plotus, was a veteran of the legio IV which was, according to some sources [Ritterling (1925) Legio], relocated to the region near Oescus by the ...

Aurelius Mithres was a slave of an emperor who released him for his services. He was a strator (στράτωρ), which literally means a person who keeps, harnesses and cares for a horse for another person.

The v in this small altar found in Novaria has been interpreted by some commentators as qualifying Mithras as victorious. [S]acrum Soli / Mit[hr]ae numini / v... inviet(o) deo / [v]isu iussus / Aelius ...

[En 201], Mucianus et Fabianus étaient consuls à Rome, et l’empereur Caracalla régnait depuis trois ans. Moi, Firmidius Severinus, soldat de la VIIIème légion, après 26 ans de service (au lieu de 20, ...

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 ...

Attention: This entry may not have been reviewed and could contain incorrect data. Small marble base, found in one of the private houses along the Via Sacra nearly ...

Porphyry states that the Mithraists “perfect their initiate by inducting him into a mystery of the descent of souls and their exit back out again, calling the place a ‘cave’.” Porphyry (On the Cave 6) ...

Centurio of the Legio III Augusta, Florus dedicated an altar to the unconquered Sol Mithras in El Gahra. Dédicace au Dieu Soleil Invaincu Mithra, par Iulius Florus, centurio (plutôt que miles) de la ...

During the first semester of his sophomore year at Crozer, King composed a paper for Enslin’s course on Greek religion, focusing on Mithraism. During the first semester of his sophomore year at Crozer ...

Symbols of Transformation is one of Jung’s major works. Originally published in 1912, it was extensively revised and expanded in the 1952 edition to incorporate Jung’s later mature understanding of ...

Written in the 3rd century, The Cave of the Nymphs is a treatise of Homeric exegesis that condenses some major theological and philosophical themes that nourished Neoplatonic thought. Starting from ...