25 October 2017
Arrival of participants – accommodation at Parc Hotel or Mariss Hotel
16.00 – 19.00 – guided tour of the Vauban fortress and the Museum
19.30 – welcome dinner
26 October 2017
9.00 – 9.30 – Registration – Senate Hall (Apor Palace), 1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia
9.30 – 10.00 – Official opening
Session 1 – chair Steven Hijmans
10.00 – 10.30 – Lucinda Dirven and Matthew M. McCarty – The mithraeum of Dura-Europos: glocalizing a Roman cult
10.30 – 11.00 – Michał Gawlikowski – The mitraeum in Hawarte in Syria
11.00 – 11.20 – Coffee break
11.20 – 11.50 – Artur Kaczor – Snake technique pottery in Mithraic cult
11.50 – 12.20 – Alexandra Ratzlaff – The Caesarea Mithraeum
12.20 – 12.50 – Andreas Hensen – Templa et spelaea Mithrae
13.00 – 15.00 Lunch break
Session 2 – chair Sorin Nemeti
15.00 – 15.30 – Jean Brodeur – Le mithraeum d’Angers (France)
15.30 – 16.00 – François Wiblé – Quelques particularités du mithraeum de Forum Claudii Vallensium / Martigny / Suisse
16.00 – 16.30 – Regula Ackermann, Sabine Deschler-Erb and Sarah Lo Russo – The Mithraeum at Kempraten (Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland): the interdisciplinary analysis project and initial results
16.30 – 16.50 – Coffee break
16.50 – 17.20 – Marleen Martens – Reconstructing cult practices and events from the evidence of finds and features from the mithraeum of Tienen (Belgium)
17.20 – 17.50 – Martin Henig and Penny Coombe – The Inveresk Mithraic altars in context
17.50 – 18.20 – Nicole Iu – Funerary Rituals in the Cult of Mithras
18.20 – 18.50 – Discussions
19.30 – Dinner
27 October 2017
Session 3 – chair Martin Henig
09.30 – 10.00 – Massimiliano David – The newly discovered Mithraeum of the Multi-Coloured Marbles at Ostia
10.00 – 10.30 – Anna Danilova – Mithraism in Ostia: the Spatial Perspective
10.30 – 11.00 – Alessandro Melega – The Ostian mithraea. New archaeological investigations about last Mithraism
11.00 – 11.20 – Coffee break
11.20 – 11.50 – Attilio Mastrocinque – Mithras in Tarquinia
11.50 – 12.20 – Francesco Sirano – The Mithraeum of ancient Capua as archaeological context
12.20 – 12.50 – Philippe Chapon – La découverte d’un mithræum à Mariana
13.00 – 15.00 Lunch break
Session 4 – chair Ian Haynes
15.00 – 15.30 – Nataša Kolar – Ptuj Mithraea in Archives
15.30 – 16.00 – Mojca Vomer Gojkovič – Mithraism in Slovenia and the mithraea of Poetovio
16.00 – 16.30 – Gabriel Sicoe – On the production and distribution of Dacian tauroctonies
16.30 – 16.50 – Coffee break
16.50 – 17.20 – Mariana Egri, Matthew M. McCarty and Aurel Rustoiu – Mithraeum III at Apulum (Alba Iulia, Romania)
17.20 – 17.50 – Andreea Drăgan – Life in a mithraeum. The pottery discovered during the investigation of the Mithraeum III at Apulum (Alba Iulia, Romania)
17.50 – 18.20 – Beatrice Ciută and Georgeta El Susi – Reconstructing ancient diet: the case of the Mithraeum III in Apulum (Alba Iulia, Romania)
18.20 – 18.50 – Concluding discussions
19.30 – Farewell dinner at a local winery
28 October 2017
9.00 – 18.00 – Field trip by bus to Roman city Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa
19.00 – Dinner
29 October 2017
Departure of participants
