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Inscription of the Legio VI Victrix from Corbridge

Inscription from Corstopitum (modern Corbridge) recording a dedication to Sol Invictus by a vexillation of Legio VI Victrix under the governorship of Sextus Calpurnius Agricola in AD 163.

 
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Altar of Aponius Rogatianus from Rudchester

Sandstone altar from the Mithraeum of Vindobala bearing a dedication to Sol Invictus and Mithras by the prefect Aponius Rogatianus.

 
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Seated Mother-goddess from the Carrawburgh Mithraeum

A small stone pedestal and the fallen statue of a seated Mother-goddess from the Mithraeum at Procolitia (modern Carrawburgh), depicting a figure of ungainly proportions enfolding in her arms a basket resting on her knees, found in the corner behind the screen at the east end of the temple…

 
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Inscription of Tib. Claudius Decimus Cornelius Antonius from Rudchester

Dedication from the Mithraeum of Rudchester recording the restoration of a temple dedicated to Sol Invictus.

 
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Altar of Titullus from Rudchester

This sandstone altar from the Mithraeum of Vindobala (modern Rudchester) preserves a dedication to the Invincible Mithras by P. Aelius Titullus, prefect of a cohort.

 
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Inscription of L. Sentius Castus of the Sixth Legion from the Rudchester Mithraeum

The inscription on the decorated altar No. 839 from the Mithraeum at Vindobala (modern Rudchester), recording a gift to the Deity by L. Sentius Castus, a soldier of the Sixth Legion.

 
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Decorated altar with rock-birth scene from the Rudchester Mithraeum

A decorated altar from the Mithraeum at Vindobala (modern Rudchester), with the letters DEO crowned with vittae on the shaft, surrounded by palm-branches, a representation of Mithras' rock-birth on the capital, and on the front of the die a naked figure grasping a bull's horns…

 
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Inscription in tabula ansata from the Walbrook Mithraeum, London

A marble fragment with an inscription in a tabula ansata from the Mithraeum at Walbrook in London, reading [Au]gggg(ustis) invicto..., a dedication to the Invincible probably addressing multiple emperors.

 
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Petrianae (Stanwix)

Petrianae was a Roman fort on Hadrian’s Wall, generally associated with Stanwix near Carlisle.

 
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Luguvallium (Carlisle)

Luguvallium was a Roman settlement and fort in northern Britannia, today Carlisle.

 
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Longovicium (Lanchester)

Longovicium was a Roman fort and settlement in northern Britannia, today associated with Lanchester.

 
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Hattwifel

Hattwifel is recorded as a findspot for Mithraic material in Roman Britannia.

 
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Deva (Chester)

Deva was a major Roman legionary fortress in northern Britannia, today Chester.

 
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Procolitia (Carrawburgh)

Procolitia stood along Hadrian’s Wall near modern Carrawburgh and formed part of the frontier infrastructure of northern Britannia.

 
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Epiacum (Alston)

The hill fort of Epiacum, known today as Whitley Castle, occupied a strategic upland position south of Hadrian’s Wall.

 
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Eburacum (York)

Eburacum, modern York, served as one of the principal administrative and military centres of northern Britannia.

 
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Coria (Corbridge)

Coria developed as a major military and civilian centre near Hadrian’s Wall at modern Corbridge in northern Britannia.

 
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Camulodunum (Colchester)

Camulodunum, modern Colchester, was among the earliest coloniae established in Britannia after the Roman conquest.

 
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Base of a Cautes statuette with inscription from Carlisle

The base of a statuette, preserving only one foot of Cautes, found at Luguvallium (modern Carlisle), bearing a dedication to Deus Cautes by Iulius, the archietus.

 
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Inscription of Sextus Severius Salvator from Cambeck

An inscription found in the ruins of an old stone wall at Cambeck, near Petrianae, recording a vow willingly and with merit fulfilled to Deus Sol Invictus by Sextus Severius Salvator, prefect.

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