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 ...

Citizen of Gallic or Germanic origin, Gaius Iulius Crescens erected a sandstone altar, found lying on top of another altar dedicated to Sol invincible and bearing a dedication to the matrons engraved ...

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 ...

Ritual & Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras – The Secret Cult of Saturn in Imperial Rome takes readers deep into the heart of the Mithraic mysteries, offering a profound exploration of the cult’s ...

The dedicator, Tiberius Claudius Thermodon, was also the author of a dedication to Diana at Ficulle (Ficulea), in the territory of Volsinii (CIL XI 2683), and a third to Fortuna Primigenia, deposited ...

Pueri Superbi have a fourteen word fraternity creed which they crow out for their 1st degree initiation. Written by Gavin McInnes in 2016, the fourteen words of this declaration are “I’m a proud ...

When you look at the Dieburg relief and read the story of Phaethon in the second book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, you’re actually looking at the story and its pictorial setting.Everyone knew this story, ...

Two reliefs in greyish sandstone, found in the south corner of the sanctuary. They probably stood at the entrance against the podia. Darmstadt, Museum. Dr. W. Jorns informs me that the numbers ...

Stone altar, found in Ceanu-Mic (reg. Turda = Potaissa). Inv(icto) / V(alerius ?) Va(lerianus?) / bo(tum) po(suit). Russu in Materiale si Cercetari arheologice VI ...

Tablet of terracotta. Together with the following No. from a grave at Glinitschtsche, Kertsch. Formerly at Leningrad, Ermitage, dep. Kertsch No. 893d; actually Museum Odessa (H. 0.139 Br. 0.105).