The corpus from Britannia superior reflects the diffusion of Mithraic cults through forts, settlements and communication routes connected to the Roman occupation of Britain. Military mobility and provincial urbanisation played a major role in the spread of the cult across southern Britain.
Mithraic monuments of Britannia superior
London Mithraeum
The Mithraeum of London, also known as the Walbrook Mithraeum, was contextualised and relocated to its original site in 2016.
CIMRM 814
Mithraeum of Housesteads
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.
CIMRM 852
Tauroctonia de Walbrook
The image of Mithras killing the bull, found near Walbrook, is surrounded by a Zoadiac circle.
CIMRM 810
Mithraeum of Caernarfon
Mithraeum near the Roman fort of Segontium at Caernarfon, built around AD 200 and refurbished twice before being desecrated and burnt in the later 4th century.
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Mithras rock-born from Housesteads
A naked Mithra emerges from the cosmic egg surrounded by the zodiac, as always carrying a torch and a dagger.
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Mithras head of Walbrook
The Mithras's head of Walbrook probable belonged to a life-size scene of the god scarifying the bull.
CIMRM 815
Mithraeum of Colchester
One of the rooms in a sustantive masonry building in Hollytrees Meadow was considered to be a Mithreum, a theory that has now been discarded.
CIMRM 829
Serapis head of Walbrook
The head of Serapis found at Walbrook, London, is decorated with stylised olive branches.
CIMRM 818
Mithraeum of Burham
To date, there is no evidence that the so-called Mithraeum of Burham was ever used to worship the sun god.
CIMRM 808
Denarius depicting Mithras rock-birth of St. Albans
The mithraic denarius of St. Albans dates from the 2nd century.
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Tabula ansata of Lucius from Bremenium
This inscription commemorates the building of a mithraeum in Bremenium with fellow worshippers of Mithras.
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People attested in Britannia superior
Places in Britannia superior
Borcovicium
Housesteads Roman Fort is the remains of an auxiliary fort on Hadrian's Wall, at Housesteads, Northumberland, England, south of Broomlee Lough.
Burham
Burham is a village and civil parish in the borough of Tonbridge and Malling in Kent, England.
Isca
Isca, variously specified as Isca Augusta or Isca Silurum, was the site of a Roman legionary fortress and settlement or vicus, the remains of which lie beneath parts of the present-day suburban town of Caerleon, Walles.
Londinium
Londinium was the capital of Roman Britain for most of the period of Roman rule. It was originally a settlement founded around 47-50 AD in an uninhabited area.
