''Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae'' (''CIMRM'') is a two-volume collection of inscriptions and monuments relating primarily to the
Mithraic Mysteries
Mithraism, also known as the Mithraic mysteries or the Cult of Mithras, was a Roman mystery religion focused on the god Mithras. Although inspired by Iranian worship of the Zoroastrian divinity ('' yazata'') Mithra, the Roman Mithras was ...
. It was compiled by Maarten Jozef Vermaseren and published at
The Hague
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by
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
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, 1956, 1960 in 2 vols. Publication was sponsored by the
Royal Flemish Academy and the
Netherlands Organization for Pure Research. It is based on an earlier 1947 work of the same title that began as an entry in a competition organized by the Department of Fine Arts and Literature of the Flemish Academy.
It is viewed as "an undiscriminating work", with "unpredictable topographic zig-zagging", but it remains indispensable for its access to the great bulk of the archaeological evidence. Although now years old, no updated corpora have been published since Vermaseren's, and ''CIMRM'' thus remains the standard reference catalog of inscriptions and monuments of the Mithraic Mysteries.
Between 1960 and the time of his death in 1990, Vermaseren had accrued a substantial amount of material for a third volume of ''CIMRM''. After his death, this collection was passed on to some Dutch scholar, and the trail of the material was lost. In August 2004, Richard Gordon posted an appea
on the websiteof the ''Electronic Journal of Mithraic Studies'', requesting information on the whereabouts of the material.
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