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Monumentum

Marble statuette of Mercury with ram and tortoise from the Walbrook Mithraeum, London

A small marble statuette of naked Mercury from the Mithraeum at Walbrook in London, sitting on a rock with the stumps of wings in his hair and a purse in his left hand, with a ram lying at his feet beside which is a tortoise.
 
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
Small marble statuette from the Mithraeum at Walbrook, London.Naked Mercury sitting on a rock. In the hair of his head are the stumps of wings; in his left hand a purse. Beside the forefeet of a ram, which is lying down at the god's feet, is a tortoise.

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