Altar of Inveresk with a griffin

Local sandstone altar found in 2010 in what must have been a wooden Mithraeum built in the middle of a field, not far from the fort of Inveresk, near the Antonine Wall.

It was carefully laid face down next to another altar of the same construction dedicated to Sol. Both monuments, of very fine workmanship, were dedicated by a Roman citizen, a centurion who had belonged to the XX legion stationed there from the 140s until his departure in 165, a date that must have marked the end of the mithreum's operation and its abandonment in accordance with the ritual rules of burial.

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