Rock-cut tauroctony forming the cult image of Mithraeum I at Doliche, later deliberately defaced by Christian iconoclasts.

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

For those that are ready to wield the Herculean club, conquering inner and outer labors! Just like the Homeric Odyssey is a sacred text allegorizing the journey of the soul to Penelope, the ...

Known from a dedication to Dominus Invictus in Malaca, he may represent an early and uncertain witness to Mithraism in ...

Mithra is attested in both the Indian subcontinent and the Iranian world. The earliest known textual reference to his name dates to the second millennium BC and appears on a clay tablet discovered at ...

Known from a disputed inscription discovered near Mediolanum, she has been tentatively linked to a Mithraic dedication, ...

Aelia Arisuth may have been associated with a Mithraic community.

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) ...

Twelve centuries separate the decline of Roman Mithraism from the dawn of Freemasonry. Twelve centuries during which the mysteries of Mithras have remained more secret than ever.

The twin Mithraea of Doliche, modern Dülük, Türkiye, constitute one of the largest known Mithraic cave sanctuaries and are exceptional in comprising two adjacent rock-cut mithraea established within ...

Dominique Persoons proposes a reconstruction of Mithraic ritual based on archaeological remains, frescoes, and zodiacal symbolism. He interprets the mithraeum as a liturgical microcosm governing the ...