Images For Lecture 19

1. The birth of Mithras from a Mithraeum beneath the Basilica of St. Clemente, Rome
2. Mithras, the Persian god, slays the primeval bull, Roman marble, 1st c. AD
3. Mithraic Relief, 2nd c. AD
4. Altar of Mithras, 1st c. AD
5. Mithras as bull slayer
6. Mithras as Sun God
7. Mithras slaying the bull
8. Mithraeum in Rome
9. Mithraic initiation grade: the Persian
10. Mithras and companions
11. Isis throughout the Empire
12. Isis throughout Rome
13. The Temple of Isis at Pompeii, Engraving by Francesco Piranesi, 1788.
14. Pompeii: Temple of Isis
15. Pompeii: Isis
16. Roman Empire: The Goddess Isis, Early 2nd c. AD, Marble
17. Isis - Aphrodite, Bronze statuette
18. Campus Martius, Rome
19. Egyptian head from Isis Temple, Rome
20. Sphinx, Isis Temple, Rome
21. Thoth, Isis Temple, Rome