Acclaimed esoteric scholar Peter Mark Adams talks about his latest book, ‘Ritual and Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras’, ...

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.

The mystagogus, dressed in a white tunica with red stripes, stands with one foot on the calfs of the kneeling myste, who holds his hands folded under his chin. Another person, dressed in a red cloak, ...

Marble statue (H. 0.85 Br. 1.10), found near the Viale Latino, about 200 mtrs from the Porta S. Giovanni. Mus. Capitolino. End of the 2nd cent. A.D. On a rocky base the statue of Mithras as a ...

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 ...

Marble relief (H. 0.34 Br. 0.30 D. 0.13), probably found in Rome during the construction of the Palazzo Primoli along the Via Zanardelli. Was in the private colI. of Franz Cumont, now in the Belgian ...

Attention: This entry may not have been reviewed and could contain incorrect data. "Around the niche were found fragments of a series of small paintings set in a semicircular band of panels. On the ...

1) Cast bronze low-relief (H. 0.25 Br. 0.20) with four holes in it, probably for fastening it into a wall. Head and arms in. high-relief. 2) Embossed bronze relief (H. 0.17 Br. 0.26) also with four ...