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

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 ...

Antiochus I Theos Dikaios Epiphanes Philorhomaios Philhellen (c. 86 - 31 BC), meaning Antiochos, the just, eminent god, friend of Romans and friend of Greeks, was king of the Greco-Iranian Kingdom of ...

The Mysteries of Mithras is an independent Initiatic Order which is inspired by and uses the allegory of the lost and ancient Mithraic Mysteries also known as Mithraism a previously influential Roman ...

Marble relief fragment from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving part of Mithras's flying cloak and the scorpion below the bull. Fragment of a marble relief (H. 0.16 Br. 0.15 D. 0.05).

Ara rep. ad Maros Portum anno 1867. Now in the Grammar School at Sighisoara = Segesvár = Schässburg. Invict[o] / Mythra[e] / Sex(tus) Syntr/ofus v(otum) s(olvit) l ...

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) ...

This imposing bas-relief was unearthed in 1965 during a public project being carried out in Ladenburg, at Kastellweg 7, in the south part of the ancient city of Lopodunum in Germania Superior. Its ...

Bench mosaics of the Mitreo delle Sette Sfere 609 241 Zodiac signs on the Mitreo delle Sette Sfere 610 242 Mosaic of Cautes and Cautopates in the Mitreo delle Sette Sfere 608 243 Two tuff altars with ...

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.

Leading member of the Ostian Mithraic community, holder of the titles pater, sacerdos and antistes. Small marble base recording a donation to M. Cerellio Hieronymo, pater and sacerdos, on behalf of an ...

Six marble fragments discovered in 1901 in the Second Mithraeum of Poetovio. The surviving pieces include the knee of Mithras and a serpent beneath the bull from a tauroctony relief, as well as ...