Mithras in Britannia superior

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

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.

CIMRM 860

Tauroctonia de Walbrook

The image of Mithras killing the bull, found near Walbrook, is surrounded by a Zoadiac circle.

CIMRM 810

Mithraeum of Caernarfon

The Mithraeum of Caernarfon, in Walles, was built in three phases during the 3rd century, and destroyed at the end of the 4th.

CIMRM 2374

Denarius depicting Mithras rock-birth of St. Albans

The mithraic denarius of St. Albans dates from the 2nd century.

CIMRM 827

Serapis head of Walbrook

The head of Serapis found at Walbrook, London, is decorated with stylised olive branches.

CIMRM 818

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

Head of Minerva from London

This head was found at the east end of temple of Mithras in London.

Tabula ansata of Lucius from Bremenium

This inscription commemorates the building of a mithraeum in Bremenium with fellow worshippers of Mithras.

CIMRM 876

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

Dionysus group marble of London

Marble group of Dionysus accompanied by a Silenus on a donkey, a satyr and a menead.

CIMRM 822

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Brothers attested in Britannia superior

Caracalla
(188 – 217)

Ulpius Silvanus
(240 – 250)

Iustus
(171 – 200)

Lucius Caecilius Optatus
(213)

Marcus Licinius Ripanus
(3rd century)

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.

Bremenium

Bremenium is an ancient Roman fort located at Rochester, Northumberland, England.

Burham

Burham is a village and civil parish in the borough of Tonbridge and Malling in Kent, England.

Camboglanna

Camboglanna was a Roman fort.

Colenceaster

Colchester KOHL-cheh-stər is a city in Essex, 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.

Segontium

Segontium is a Roman fort on the outskirts of Caernarfon in Gwynedd, North Wales.

Verulamium

Verulamium was a town in Roman Britain.