Mithras head of Walbrook — The New Mithraeum

The New Mithraeum

14 Jun 2009

Updated on May 2026

Marble head of Mithras in Phrygian cap. The head probably formed part of a life-size bull-slaying scene that stood in the temple. Mithras's eyes are turned away from the actual deed of slaying the bull.

CIMRM II 815
Hill, Buried London, Plate on frontpage; Grimes in Bruce-Mitford, Pl. XXVIII. See fig. 252 kindly supplied by Professor W. F. Grimes.

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