When Things Don't Fit: Looking at the London Mithraeum by Hugh Bowden

“…The redisplayed London Mithraeum beneath the Bloomberg building in the City of London, and the material recovered from excavation of the site, now on display in the Museum of London, provide a valuable resource for exploring aspects of religion in Roman London. …”
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Diagnostics and Monitoring to Preserve a Hypogeum Site: The Case of the Mithraeum of Marino Laziale (Rome) by Loredana Luvidi, Fernanda Prestileo, Michela De Paoli, Cristiano Riminesi, Rachele Manganelli Del Fà, Donata Magrini, Fabio Fratini

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BEYOND THE ROMAN EAST: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF THE MITHRAEUM BASED ON ITS ARCHITECTURAL AUTHENTICITY AT CASTRUM ZERZEVAN (DİYARBAKIR, TURKEY) by Aytaç COŞKUN, E.Deniz OĞUZ-KIRCA

“…The authors argue that it stands as the only known Mithraeum on the eastern border of Rome until proven otherwise. …”
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Petrographic-Mineralogical Characterization of Archaeological Materials from “Casa di Diana” <i>Mithraeum</i> Sited in the Open Museum of Ostia Antica by Claudia Scatigno, Maria Preite Martinez, Nagore Prieto-Taboada, Juan Manual Madariaga, Aida Maria Conte

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Recherches Mithriaques. Quarante ans de questions et d’investigations by Robert Turcan by Roger Beck

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O Mitreu de Londinium e a escavação de dois impérios by Renato Pinto

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Coping with Images of Initiations in the Mithras Cult by Nicole Belayche

“…It first recalls the main approaches to the interpretation of these images (historiography, anthropological approach, semiotic reading), and then argues that these images intended to display to the viewers (insiders/initiates) a sense of grouping and of contrasted agencies within the groups, to different extents in each mithraeum. By focusing on a case-study from Caesarea Maritima, it proposes to identify the three different ways through which a religious group might give an image both of itself and to itself: a collective ritual (i.e. a procession), the initiation as a transmission (without a special terrifying ambiance), and a mythological narrative on the deity who protects the group.…”
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Archaeological and Epigraphic Evidence about the Religious Life of the Roman Garrison in Tyras by Kateryna Savelieva

“…This structure might have been a sanctuary, dedicated to some unofficial cults of the Roman army, probably a Mithraeum. Indirectly, this assumption is confirmed by the fragments of reliefs depicting a Thracian horseman and a Mithras Tauroctony found in the adjacent area.…”
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Fortificatia quadriburgium (?) de la pestera Veterani din Clisura Dunării by Călin Timoc

“…The traces of the Roman era are less clear, with specialists hesitating between recognizing it as a fishing settlement that at some point, in the late Roman era, could have been fortified, or classifying it as a sacred cave or even a mithraeum. As it is expected, its strategic position in the area of the Danube Cauldrons strait made this unusual place to be included in the UNESCO list of the Danube Limes of the Roman Empire. …”
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Those Men and their Shackles. A Rare Discovery from Roman Dacia by Ana Cristina Hamat

“…It is part of a series of rather rare artefacts in the Empire, illustrated in Dacia by the discoveries made in the forts from Călugăreni, Buciumi, Ilișua, Mehadia and Bologa as well as in the research carried out in the military vicus from Porolissum, and also in the Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa mithraeum. From the context, it is clear that the artifact was used by the military troops stationed here to secure prisoners of war or even non-submissive individuals from inside the military and can be dated to the beginning of the second century, between the conquest of Dacia and the years 117–118 AD. …”
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Roman Religion in the Classroom: Spotlight on the Mysteries of Mithras by Ersin Hussein

“…With the reopening of the London Mithraeum last year the spotlight has once again been cast on the spread and impact of the cult in Roman Britain. …”
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Fra huskult til basilika by Per Bilde

“…Eleusis), the lecture hall (such as gymnasium and stoa), the Greek and Near Eastern cult theatres, the roman basilica and the Roman mithraeum. From the beginning, obviously, the Christian cult building  was a meeting house like the Greek counsel hall, the roman basilica and the Jewish synagogue. …”
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Soluble Salts Quantitative Characterization and Thermodynamic Modeling on Roman Bricks to Assess the Origin of Their Formation by Claudia Scatigno, Nagore Prieto-Taboada, Giulia Festa, Juan Manuel Madariaga

“…The environmental weathering and the formation of efflorescences on the brick walls are studied at the “Casa di Diana” Mithraeum at Ostia Antica archaeological site. Previous studies on subsoil, bedrock, hydrological systems and environmental conditions, and new ion chromatography analysis combined with ECOS-RUNSALT and Medusa-Hydra thermodynamic modelling software, had allowed us to identify the subsoil contamination related to soluble salts. …”
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