Monumentum
Marble statue of Bonus Eventus from the Walbrook Mithraeum, London
A white marble statue from the Mithraeum at Walbrook in London, depicting Bonus Eventus standing in a long hanging cloak, leaning on a ship's stem, holding a cornucopia against his shoulder and a patera above a burning altar from the back of which a serpent entwines itself round the god's arm.
CIMRM 812Vermaseren's Corpus
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
White marble statue, found in London near Walbrook in 1889. London Museum, Inv. No. A 16933.Standing person in long, hanging cloak, which leaves the upper part of the body uncovered. Beside his left foot the stem of a ship, floating on the waves. With his left hand he holds a cornucopia against his shoulder. With the other hand he holds a patera above a burning altar, from the back of which a serpent arises, entwining itself round the god's arm and then disappearing again behind the altar (Bonus Eventus).
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