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 ...

Traveler down the rabbit hole discovering links between Freemasonry and Mithraism.

Acta diurna is our Mithraic social stream for keeping up to date with what is happening in The New Mithraeum.

In this article, a bas-relief from a Mithras temple in Osterburken and of early third century AC is considered in the light of a neoplalonist philosophical treatise of Porphyry, The Cave of Nymphs.The ...

Nothing is more fatal, indeed, than to love the obscenities and depravities of vice. What shall I say of the shameful scenes which take place in the caves where they hide their eyes? To escape from ...

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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 opposite to the Basilica of ...

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’.” The New Mithraeum ...

This short animation traces one of the interpretations of the Mithras legend based on archaeological research.

It seems that the freedman Sextius Syntrofus was part of a modest Mithraic community of liberti and foreigners who came to Apulum from Greek or other eastern areas.

Governor of Numidia in 303, his authority extended over the Milev region, i.e. Numidia Cirtensis, and the plateau and limes region, probably including Tripolitania, i.e. Numidia M... It should come as ...

Marcus Aurelius Decimus was a prominent Roman official, vir perfectissimus, in the late 3rd century AD, serving as governor of Numidia around 284-285. He dedicated several monuments to various deities ...