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Monumentum

Serapis head of Walbrook

The head of Serapis found at Walbrook, London, is decorated with stylised olive branches.

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The New Mithraeum

14 Jun 2009

Updated on May 2026

Large marble head of Sarapis with modius, decorated with stylised olive-branches. In the same time a colossal right hand holding a part of a stick (oar?) was found.

CIMRM II 818
See fig. 253.

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