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Monumentum

Mithras head of Walbrook

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