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Fragments of a column base from Hamadan

The base of the column bears an inscription that records the rebuilding of a palace at Ectabana ’by the favour of Ahuramaza, Anahita and Mithra’.

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Votive plaque from Ballıhisar

This votive silver plaque depicting Mithras was found at the site of Pessinus, Ballıhisar, in Turkey.

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Isca (Caerleon)

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.

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Camboglanna (Castlesteads)

Camboglanna was a Roman fort.

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Bremenium (Rochester)

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

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Colenceaster (Colchester)

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

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Burham (Burham)

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

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Vindobala (Rudchester)

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

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Verulamium (St Albans)

Verulamium was a town in Roman Britain.

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Segontium (Caernarfon)

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

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Pons Aelius (Newcastle upon Tyne)

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

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Londinium (London)

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.

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Eboracum (York)

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.

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Brocolita (Carrawburgh)

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

Syndexios

Lucius Caecilius Optatus

Tribune of the First Cohort of Vardulli, he erected a mithraeum at Bremenium together with his consacranei.

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Tauroctony in the British Museum

The sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull was transported from Rome to London by Charles Standish in 1815.

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Radiate bronze head of Mithras

Bronze head of Mithras in a radiate Phrygian cap.

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Head of Minerva from London

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

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Candelabrum of Caernarfon

The Caernarfon candelabrum is a reconstruction of several iron pieces found in the Mithraeum of Caernarfon.

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Arm with stars and a swastika

This bronze arm, with stars and a swastika, was once thought to be part of a Mithras statuette but has since been dismissed as unrelated to the Mithras cult.

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