This article presents two recently discovered Mithraic objects depicting Cautes, found reused in a domestic context at Alba ...

In polemical passages from the late second and early third centuries, Tertullian portrays the cult of Mithras as a demonic ...

In the eighteenth year of Diocletian’s reign, Galerius Maximianus, persuaded by the sorcerer Theoteknos, consulted demonic ...

Inscription fixed into a wall beside a cave, hewn out in the rock. This cave lies about 40 meters South of the gate of Tiddis-Kheneg along the paved main-road. L.H. 0.05-0.03. I(nvicto) M(ithrae) ...

Fragmentary Latin inscription from Simitthus (Chemtou), dated to the reign of Caracalla and Julia Maesa. It refers to a restoration (?) and concludes with the fulfilment of a vow to Cautes and ...

Peter Mark Adams challenges current academic conventions by restoring the term ‘mysteries’ to the cult of Mithras while offering a deep, well-informed, and nuanced point of view. His new book, ‘Ritual ...

Araxes is a river in Armenia, so called from Araxus the son of Pylus. For he, contending with his grandfather Arbelus for the empire, shot him with an arrow. For which being haunted by the Furies, he ...

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 ...

Sur l'initiative conjointe de l'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei et de l'Academia Bélgica, une séance solennelle d'hommage à la mémoire de Franz Cumont s'est tenue à Rome le 13 janvier dernier. Par une ...

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.

White marble statuette (H. 0.41 Br. 0.17). Mus. Lateran, Inv. No. 319A. Standing Aion with lion’s head and four wings, two of which are pointing upwards, two downwards. He is entwined in seven coils ...

Terracotta tablet (H. 0.25), found at Calvi, now at Berlin, Antiquarium (Inv. No. 8492). Mithras as a bullkiller. The god is dressed in a flying shouldercape only. Mithras’ head is a restoration.