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Mithras in Britannia superior

Britannia superior preserves a substantial body of Mithraic evidence associated with military sites and urban centres of Roman Britain.

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

See all Mithraic monuments 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.

 

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.

Inscriptions from Britannia superior

Tauroctonia de Walbrook

Ulpius Silvanus / factis Arausione / emeritus leg[ionis] II aug[ustae] / votum solvit.
Ulpius Silvanus, veteran of the Legio II Augusta, recruited in Arausio, has fulfilled his vow.

Tabula ansata of Lucius from Bremenium

Deo invicto [[et]] Soli soc[io] / sacrum. Pro salute et / incolumitate imp[eratoris] Caes[aris] / M[arci] Aureli Antonini pii felic[is] / aug[usti] L[ucius] Caecilius Optatus / trib[unus] coh[ortis] I Vardul[lorum] cum con[sa]/craneis votum de [---] / a solo ex[s]truct[un---].
Consecrated to the invincible God and to Sol, his companion, for the welfare and safety of the pious, auspicious and august Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. Lucius Caecilius Optatus, tribune of the first cohort of Vardulli, with his fellow worshippers, vowed to the god to erect [this building] from the ground up.

Denarius depicting Mithras rock-birth of St. Albans

MIΘRAC ΩROMASDHC / ΦRHN.
Mithras Oromoasdes [Ormuzd] Phren.

Dionysus group marble of London

Hominibus bagis bitam.
Thou givest lift to men.

Inscripton of Justus from Caerleon

[Deo in]victo / [Mi]thrae / ...s Iustus / c[[enturio] leg]ionis II aug[ustae] / [l[ibens]] m[erito] f[ecit].
To the Invincible Mithras, the well-deserving, […]s Justus, […] of the Second Legion Augusta, set this up.

Mithraic find from London

u . . . . / [Bri]tanniae/. . . . [vic]toriam/. . . . am.

Altar of Castlesteads

De[o] Soli / [Invi]cto / M[ith]r[a]e M[ar]/cus Liciniu[s] / Ripanus praef[ectus] v[otum] s[olvit].
To the Invincible Sun-god Mithras, Marcus Licinius Ripanus, prefect, willingly and deservedly fulfilled his vow.

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.
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