Platonic realism, theology of arithmetic, and teleological metamorphoses of powers in the divine, terrestrial, and chthonic ...

For more than a century, one of Spain’s most remarkable Roman monuments has posed a deceptively simple question: what exactly was it built for? Hidden beneath the landscape of the Roman necropolis of ...

En esta vídeo entrevista, Israel Campos Méndez aborda las principales cuestiones que siguen dividiendo a los especialistas: los orígenes del culto de Mitra, su evolución desde las tradiciones ...

Territories beyond the frontiers of the Roman Empire during the Roman period. This region groups together archaeological sites and monuments located outside the borders of the Roman Empire but ...

Historical region of north-western Iran, forming a major political and cultural centre under the Parthian and Sasanian empires. Media was an ancient region of north-western Iran that remained an ...

Historical region encompassing the heartland of the ancient Persian empires. Persia formed the core territory of the ancient Persian empires and remained a major political, religious and cultural ...

The principal cult relief of Mithraeum I at Doliche was carved directly into the living rock at the rear wall of the sanctuary. Although deliberately mutilated in antiquity, its composition remains ...

Known from a disputed inscription discovered near Mediolanum, she has been tentatively linked to a Mithraic dedication, although the interpretation remains controversial. Additional doubts arise from ...

This dynastic seal is traditionally attributed to Šauštatar, one of the most powerful kings of Mitanni during the fifteenth century BCE. The seal became a dynastic emblem and continued to be used by ...

Known from a dedication to Dominus Invictus in Malaca, he may represent an early and uncertain witness to Mithraism in Baetica. If the dedication was indeed addressed to Mithras, Lucius Servilius ...

Severan governor and commander of Legio VII Gemina, associated with the religious milieu that fostered the rise of Mithraic communities in north-western Hispania. The inscription has traditionally ...

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 ...