Name: Borcovicium
Address: Housesteads Roman Fort, Housesteads, United Kingdom

Mithraic monuments of Borcovicium

Cautes Borcovicus

CIMRM 854

The head this statue of Cautes from Carrawburgh has been lost.
Mithras rock-born from Housesteads

CIMRM 860

A naked Mithra emerges from the cosmic egg surrounded by the zodiac, as always carrying a torch and a dagger.
Mithraeum of Housesteads

CIMRM 852

The Housesteads Mithraeum is an underground temple, now burried, discovered in 1822 in a slope of the Chapel Hill, outside of the Roman Fort at the Hadrian's Wall.
Limestone tauroctony relief from the Housesteads Mithraeum

CIMRM 853

A large limestone tauroctony relief in several fragments from the Mithraeum at Borcovicium (modern Housesteads), the vaulted main fragment showing Mithras slaying the bull with Cautes raising his torch beside the bull's foreleg, a crescent of Luna in the upper corner, and smaller fragments preserving a dog, a bull's head, Mithras' arm with dagger and a piece of his cloak with a fibula.
Limestone statue of Aion from the Housesteads Mithraeum

CIMRM 855

A limestone statue from the Mithraeum at Borcovicium (modern Housesteads), representing a standing male figure in short tunic with bare legs and feet, arms held tight along the body with clenched fists once holding attributes now lost, with part of a snake on his right arm, probably depicting Aion.
Limestone statue of Cautopates from the Housesteads Mithraeum

CIMRM 856

A limestone statue from the Mithraeum at Borcovicium (modern Housesteads), depicting Cautopates in Eastern attire standing cross-legged on a base and pointing his torch downwards, with head lost.
Limestone statue of Cautes from the Housesteads Mithraeum

CIMRM 857

A limestone statue from the Mithraeum at Borcovicium (modern Housesteads), depicting Cautes in Eastern attire and cross-legged, raising his torch.
Altar with Sol bust from the Housesteads Mithraeum

CIMRM 858

An altar found in the north-east corner of the main room of the Mithraeum at Borcovicium (modern Housesteads) in 1822, bearing on its capital the bust of Sol in a crown of seven rays and the inscription No. 859.
Inscription of Herion dedicated to Sol from the Housesteads Mithraeum

CIMRM 859

The inscription on the altar No. 858 from the Mithraeum at Borcovicium (modern Housesteads), recording a vow willingly and with merit fulfilled by Herion to Sol.

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Inscriptions from Borcovicium

Altar to Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Cocidius and the genius loci from Housesteads

I(ovi) o(ptimo) m(aximo) / et deo Cocidi[o] genioq(ue) hui(u)s / loci mil(ites) leg(ionis) / II Aug(ustae) [agentes?] / in praesidio / v(otum) [s(olverunt)] l(ibentes) m(erito).

To Jupiter Optimus Maximus, to the god Cocidius, and to the Genius of this place, the soldiers of the Second Augustan Legion, serving at the garrison, gladly and deservedly discharged their vow.

References

Historic England Research Records — Housesteads Mithraeum

Mithraic monuments of Borcovicium

Cautes Borcovicus

Mithras rock-born from Housesteads

Mithraeum of Housesteads

Limestone tauroctony relief from the Housesteads Mithraeum

Limestone statue of Aion from the Housesteads Mithraeum

Limestone statue of Cautopates from the Housesteads Mithraeum

Limestone statue of Cautes from the Housesteads Mithraeum

Altar with Sol bust from the Housesteads Mithraeum

Inscription of Herion dedicated to Sol from the Housesteads Mithraeum

Inscriptions from Borcovicium

Altar to Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Cocidius and the genius loci from Housesteads

References