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Housesteads Roman Fort is the remains of an auxiliary fort on Hadrian's Wall, at Housesteads, Northumberland, England, south of Broomlee Lough.
An ara thought to originate from the Mithraic sanctuary at Borcovicium (modern Housesteads), bearing a fragmentary inscription dedicated to Sol Invictus.
An altar found not far from the eastern entrance of the cult-room at Borcovicium (modern Housesteads), bearing a brief dedication to Deus Sol.
An altar found in 1822 at Borcovicium (modern Housesteads), recording a vow fulfilled by Valerianus, a soldier of the Sixth Victrix Legion, to Cocidius and the Genius of the garrison.
An altar found in the west corner of the sanctuary at Borcovicium (modern Housesteads) in 1898, recording a dedication to Jupiter Optimus Maximus, the god Cocidius and the genius of the place by soldiers of the Second Augustan Legion on garrison duty.
An altar found in 1898 in the east part of the sanctuary at Borcovicium (modern Housesteads), bearing a dedication to Mars and Victoria, possibly belonging to an adjacent shrine rather than the Mithraeum itself.
An altar with a praefericulum on the right side and a patera on the left, found at the Mithraeum at Borcovicium (modern Housesteads) in 1822, recording a vow fulfilled to Sol Invictus Mithras Saecularis by Litorius Pacatianus, beneficiarius consulis, for himself and his family…
An altar found in 1822 at the Mithraeum at Borcovicium (modern Housesteads), recording a vow fulfilled to Sol Invictus Mithras Saecularis by Publius Proculinus, centurion, for himself and his son Proculus, during the consulship of Gallus and Volusianus in 252 A.D…
Ceramic finds from both excavations of the Mithraeum at Borcovicium (modern Housesteads), comprising red and thin black-glazed pottery fragments together with a silver coin of Faustina Minor, indicating the sanctuary was in use before 253 A.D. and was most likely destroyed by fire…
A group of four altars from the Mithraeum at Borcovicium (modern Housesteads): two found in 1822 bearing inscriptions Nos. 863 and 864, and two more found in 1898, one dedicated to Mars and Victoria (No. 865) and one to Cocidius (No. 866), the last possibly belonging to an adjacent shrine…
The inscription on the altar No. 858 from the Mithraeum at Borcovicium (modern Housesteads), recording a vow willingly and with merit fulfilled by Herion to Sol.
An altar found in the north-east corner of the main room of the Mithraeum at Borcovicium (modern Housesteads) in 1822, bearing on its capital the bust of Sol in a crown of seven rays and the inscription No. 859.
A limestone statue from the Mithraeum at Borcovicium (modern Housesteads), depicting Cautes in Eastern attire and cross-legged, raising his torch.
A limestone statue from the Mithraeum at Borcovicium (modern Housesteads), depicting Cautopates in Eastern attire standing cross-legged on a base and pointing his torch downwards, with head lost.
A limestone statue from the Mithraeum at Borcovicium (modern Housesteads), representing a standing male figure in short tunic with bare legs and feet, arms held tight along the body with clenched fists once holding attributes now lost, with part of a snake on his right arm…
A large limestone tauroctony relief in several fragments from the Mithraeum at Borcovicium (modern Housesteads), the vaulted main fragment showing Mithras slaying the bull with Cautes raising his torch beside the bull's foreleg, a crescent of Luna in the upper corner…
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.
A naked Mithra emerges from the cosmic egg surrounded by the zodiac, as always carrying a torch and a dagger.
This limestone altar bears an inscription from its donor, Firmidius Severinus, in honour of Mithras after 26 years of service in the Legio VIII Augusta.
