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The New Mithraeum Database of United kingdom

Mithraic monuments, temples and other objects related to Mithras from United kingdom.
 
  • Mithraeum

    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.

    TNMM309 – CIMRM 852

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony in the British Museum

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

    TNMM328 – CIMRM 592

  • Monumentum

    Serapis head of Walbrook

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

    TNMM121 – CIMRM 818

  • Monumentum

    Mithras Tauroctony and other figures from Palæographia Britannica

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

    TNMM247

  • Monumentum

    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.

    TNMM267

  • Monumentum

    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.

    TNMM337 – CIMRM 828

  • Monumentum

    Busto de Livia

    TNMM109

  • Mithraeum

    Mithraeum of Carrawburgh

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

    TNMM26 – CIMRM 844

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of York

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

    TNMM246 – CIMRM 835

  • Monumentum

    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.

    TNMM250 – CIMRM 833, 834

    Vol(usius) Iren[aeus] / Arimani v(otum) [s(olvens) l(ibens) / m(erito)] / d(ono) [ d(edit)]