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Mithras in Britannia inferior

Along the northern frontier of Roman Britain, Britannia inferior preserves important evidence linked to military and frontier communities.

Evidence from Britannia inferior illustrates the circulation of Mithraic cults through forts, legionary environments and frontier infrastructure associated with the northern limits of Roman power in Britain. The province formed part of the wider military world of the northwestern empire.

Mithraic monuments of Britannia inferior

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Places in Britannia inferior

 

Brocolita

Brocolitia, also called Procolita or Brocolita, was an auxiliary settlement on Hadrian's Wall. This site is now known as Carrawburgh.

 

Eboracum

Eboracum was a fort and later a city in the Roman province of Britannia. Two Roman emperors died in Eboracum: Septimius Severus in 211 AD, and Constantius Chlorus in 306 AD.

 

Inveresk

Roman fort and vicus near Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland.

 

Pons Aelius

Pons Aelius, or Newcastle Roman Fort, was an auxiliary castra and small Roman settlement on Hadrian's Wall in the Roman province of Britannia Inferior, situated on the north bank of the River Tyne close to the centre of present-day Newcastle upon Tyn

 

Vindobala

Vindobala, now a hamlet of Rudchester, was the fourth Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall.

Inscriptions from Britannia inferior

Arimanius from York

Vol[usius] Iren[aeus] / Arimani v[otum] [s[olvens] l[ibens] / m[erito]] / d[ono] [ d[edit]].
Volusius Irenaeus, willingly and deservedly fulfilling his vow, gave this as a gift to Arimanes.

Altar with openwork of Inveresk

Soli C[aius] Cas[sius ?] Fla[vianus ?] >.
À Sol, Caius Cas[sius ?] Fla[vianus ?], centurion.

Mithras-Sol Altar from the Carrawburgh

Deo ♣ invicto ♠ / Mithrae M[arcus] Sim/plicius Simplex pr[a]ef[ectus] v[otum] s[olvit] l[ibens] m[erito].
To the Invincible god Mithras Marcus Simplicius Simplex, prefect, willingly and deservedly fulfilled his vow.

Altar of Inveresk with a griffin

Daeo [sic] / invic[to] My[thrae] / C. Cas[sius ?] / Fla[vianus ?].
To the god Mithras the Unconquered, Gaius Cassius Flavianus [set this up].

Altar of Carrawburgh by Aulus Cluentius

D[eo] in[victo] M[ithrae] s[acrum] / Aul[us] Cluentius / Habitus pra[e]f[ectus] / coh[ortis] I / Batavorum / domu Ulti/n[i]a Colon[ia] / Sept[imia] Aur[elia] L[arino] / v[otum] s[olvit] l[ibens] m[erito].
Sacred to the Invincible god Mithras: Aulus Cluentius Habitus, prefect of the First Cohort of Batavians, of the Ultinian voting-tribe, from Colonia Septimia Aurelia Larinum, willingly and deservedly fulfilled his vow.

Altar of Carrawburgh by Antonius Proculus

Deo Inv[icto] M[ithrae] / L[ucius] Antonius / Proculus / praef[ectus] coh[ortis] I Bat[avorum] Antoninianae / v[otum] s[olvit] l[ibens] m[erito].
To the Invincible god Mithras Lucius Antonius Proculus, prefect of the First Cohort of Batavians Antoniniana, willingly and deservedly fulfilled his vow.

Inscription to Sol Apollo Anicetus from Rudchester

Soli / Apollini / Aniceto / [Miithrae] / Apon[i]us / Rogatianus / [.
To Sol Apollo Anicetus Mithras, Aponius Rogatianus ….

Inscription of Tib. Claudius Decimus Cornelius Antonius from Rudchester

Deo Soli invic(to) / Tib. Cl(audius) Decimus / Cornel(ia) Anto/nius praef(ectus) / templ(um) restit(uit).
To the god Sol Invictus, Tiberius Claudius Decimus Cornelius Antonius, prefect, restored the temple.

Altar of Titullus from Rudchester

Deo invicto / Mytrae P. Ael(ius) Ti[t]ullus prae(fectus) / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito).
To the invincible god Mithras, Publius Aelius Titullus, prefect, fulfilled his vow willingly, gladly, and deservedly.

Altar of Aponius Rogatianus from Rudchester

Soli / Apollini / aniceto / [Mithrae] Apon[i]us Rogat[i]anus [praef(ectus) v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito)].
To Sol Apollo, the unconquered Mithras, Aponius Rogatianus, prefect, fulfilled his vow willingly and deservedly.
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