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Monumentum

Mercury with ram and tortoise from 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.
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The New Mithraeum
21 Sept 2026
A small marble statuette. Naked Mercury sitting on a rock. In the hair of his head are the stumps of wings, in his l.h. is a purse, beside the forefeet of a ram, which is lying down at the god’s feet, is a tortoise (ILN, 636).

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