Este ano visitamos a domus do Mitreo de Lugo, un dos achados máis impresionantes do culto a Mitra dos últimos vinte anos, e magnificamente musealizado. Recomendadísimo.
Sites with evidence for the cult of Mithras.
Starting from the late 1st century, it rapidly spread, becoming one of the most popular cults in the Roman Empire before the rise of Christianity.
"At present, approximately 140 Mithraic temples over the entire area of the Imperium Romanum have been archeologically verified, and evidence for the cult itself – with its normally rather small cult communities – exists in more than 500 locations. Evidence can be found from almost all provinces: about 700 relief representations of the bull-slaying Mithras are known, plus a further 500 reliefs in connection with the cult.
To date, more than 1,000 inscriptions provide information concerning the cult, its members, distinct rituals, cult buildings and foundations. These form the basis of an at least rudimentary analysis of the social composition of almost 500 small cult communities... Among the followers of the cult are senators, men of the equestrian rank, decuriones (members of the local city–council, ordo decurionum), soldiers of all types, full Roman citizens, freedmen and slaves."