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The New Mithraeum Database

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Cautes from Newcastle

This limestone statue of Cautes is now exposed at Great North Museum of Newcastle.

 
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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.

 
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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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Serapis head of Walbrook

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

 
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Mithras Tauroctony and other figures from Palæographia Britannica

Palæographia Britannica: or, discourses on antiquities that relate to the history of Britain. Number III.

 
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Four mithraic engravings from Veterum Persarum et Parthorum et Medorum Religionis Historia

The folio depicts three tauroctonies and a Mithras Triumphantes standing on a bull with the globe in one hand and the dagger in the other.

 
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Castor-vase of St Albans

The St Albans mithraic vase depicts fragments of three figures identified by Vermaseren as Hercules, Mercury and Mithras as an archer.

 
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Mithraeum of Carrawburgh

The temple of Mithras of Carrawburgh, Brocolita, disclosed three main stages of development, the second exhibiting two reconstructions.

 
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Tauroctony of York

This stone in basso relief of Mithras killing the bull was found 10 foot underground in Micklegate York in 1747.

 
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Aion of York

The statue of Arimanius/Ahriman was found in 1874 under the city wall of York during the construction of the railway station.

 
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CIMRM 812

White marble statue (H. 0.53-0.59 with base, Br. 0.25).

 
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CIMRM 813

Fragment of a white marble statue (H. 0.35 Br. 0.27).

 
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CIMRM 816

Lower part of a relief.

 
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CIMRM 817

The torso of a male figure, in marble, flattened at the back, perhaps one of the attendant deities of Mithras.

 
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CIMRM 819

Fragment of a circular plaque showing the Danubian horsemen and leaping dogs (ILN, 542).

 
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CIMRM 820

Marble head of a woman (H. 12 ins.), originally crowned with a diadem (ILN, 542; 636).

 
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CIMRM 821

A small marble statuette.

 
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CIMRM 824

A sandstone bowl (ILN 636); a large part of a stone laver, or washing bowl (ILN, 542).

 
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CIMRM 825

Marble fragment with an inscription in a tabula ansata (ILN 1954, 636).

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