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Locus

Londinium

Londinium was the capital of Roman Britain for most of the period of Roman rule. It was originally a settlement founded around 47-50 AD in an uninhabited area.

Brothers active in Londinium

Mithraic monuments of Londinium

 

London Mithraeum

The Mithraeum of London, also known as the Walbrook Mithraeum, was contextualised and relocated to its original site in 2016.

CIMRM 814

 

Tauroctonia de Walbrook

The image of Mithras killing the bull, found near Walbrook, is surrounded by a Zoadiac circle.

CIMRM 810

 

Mithras head of Walbrook

The Mithras's head of Walbrook probable belonged to a life-size scene of the god scarifying the bull.

CIMRM 815

 

Dionysus group marble of London

Marble group of Dionysus accompanied by a Silenus on a donkey, a satyr and a menead.

CIMRM 822

 

Head of Minerva from London

This head was found at the east end of temple of Mithras in London.

 

CIMRM 812

White marble statue (H. 0.53-0.59 with base, Br. 0.25).

CIMRM 812

 

CIMRM 813

Fragment of a white marble statue (H. 0.35 Br. 0.27).

CIMRM 813

 

CIMRM 816

Lower part of a relief.

CIMRM 816

 

CIMRM 817

The torso of a male figure, in marble, flattened at the back, perhaps one of the attendant deities of Mithras.

CIMRM 817

 

CIMRM 819

Fragment of a circular plaque showing the Danubian horsemen and leaping dogs (ILN, 542).

CIMRM 819

 

CIMRM 820

Marble head of a woman (H. 12 ins.), originally crowned with a diadem (ILN, 542; 636).

CIMRM 820

 

CIMRM 821

A small marble statuette.

CIMRM 821

 

CIMRM 824

A sandstone bowl (ILN 636); a large part of a stone laver, or washing bowl (ILN, 542).

CIMRM 824

 

CIMRM 825

Marble fragment with an inscription in a tabula ansata (ILN 1954, 636).

CIMRM 825

 

CIMRM 826

Marble fragment with an inscription (ILN 1954,636).

CIMRM 826

Inscriptions of Londinium

Ulpius Silvanus / factis Arausione / emeritus leg(ionis) II aug(ustae) / votum solvit.
Ulpius Silvanus, veteran of the Legio II Augusta, recruited in Arausio, has fulfilled his vow.

Tauroctonia de Walbrook

Hominibus bagis bitam.
Thou givest lift to men.

Dionysus group marble of London

u . . . . / [Bri]tanniae/. . . . [vic]toriam/. . . . am.

CIMRM 826

References

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