In reclaiming the word mysteries for the cult of Mithras, Adams not only rehabilitates a neglected religious tradition, he ...

Volute cushions (pulvini), rams’ heads in the volutes, acanthus chalice in between. Below the inscription bust of Cautopates. On the side sides profile head of Mithras with Phrygian cap above rocks.

Fresco in an arched niche (H. 1.80 Br. 1.10) above the right bench. Mithras, dressed in purple tunic with long sleeves and anaxyrides, wears on his head the Phrygian cap, of which only the point has ...

This fragment of a sculpture, measuring 48 x 45 cm, depicts Mithras emerging from a rock, accompanied by serpent motifs. Discovered in Aquileia, Italy, it is now preserved in the Museo Archeologico di ...

L'Écume des jours est un roman de Boris Vian, considéré aussi comme un conte. Publié le 20 mars 1947, il a été rédigé entre mars et mai 1946 au dos d’imprimés de l’AFNOR et dédié à sa première épouse ...

Dr. A. J. Ohrenberger, Ein Weihalter aus Illmitz (Bez. Neusiedl am See) in Burgenländische Heimatblätter XXII, 1960, 3ff and fig.; (cf. PAR 1960, 1f) publishes an ...

In ecclesia S. Martini in Montibus, ara rotunda sertis a cranis bubulis dependentibus circundata. (In the church of S. Martino ai Monti [Basilica dei Santi Silvestro e Martino ai Monti], a round altar ...

I am an historian of religions. I currently studies so called "Oriental cults of the Roman Enmpire.

For the launch of our YouTube channel, we chat with the author, poet, essayist and friend Peter Mark Adams about the Sola-Busca Tarot, a Renaissance masterpiece, uncovering ties to the Mithras cult.

In 1979, while ploughing at a field called ‘Crepulja’ in Borovo (Croatia), Maksim Bjelica found a Roman altar. Its findspot is in the area of Teutoburgium, the Roman auxiliary fort built on the ...

Fresco (H. 0.70) in the corner of the North wall near the preceding No. Owing to the weathered painting the representation is hardly distinguishable. It could be the figure of Aion (?) with outspread ...

L.H. 0.05. D(eo) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) C(aute) /T. Flavius / Verecundus / c(o)l(onia) Savaria / [centurio] leg(ionis) XIIII / g(eminae) M(artiae) v(ictricis) / v(otum ...