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 ...

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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 ...

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 opposite to the Basilica of ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Franz Cumont. L'Egypte des astrologues. Bruxelles, égyptologique Reine Elisabeth, 1937. In-8°, 254 pp. Le maître illustre auquel l'histoire des idées et des croyances de l'antiquité doit tant de ses ...

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 ...