Decorated altar with rock-birth scene from the Rudchester Mithraeum

Altar from the Mithraeum at Vindobala (modern Rudchester). Blackgate Museum, Newcastle-on-Tyne.The front of the shaft is decorated with a crown adorned with three vittae. In it the letters DEO with inscription No. 840 below it. The whole is surrounded by two palm-branches. On the capital a representation of Mithras' rock-birth.On the front of the die, between two columns, a naked person to the left, walking beside a bull and holding its horns. On the right side three daggers and in the upper left side a bull's head.

CIMRM II 839
Altar (H. 1.25 Br. 0.46 D. 0.435) in sandstone.Gillam–MacIvor, 206f and fig. 9…