The New Mithraeum Database

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

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

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…

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.

The Mithraeum of Rudchester was discovered in 1844 on the brow of the hill outside the roman station.

Sandstone altar combining imagery of Apollo, Mithras and the torchbearers Cautes and Cautopates near the Roman fort of Whitley Castle.

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The archaeology of the Rudchester Mithraeum

The head this statue of Cautes from Carrawburgh has been lost.

Fragmentary inscription from Vindobala preserving a rare dedication to “Sol Apollo Anicetus” within a Mithraic context on Hadrian’s Wall.

One of the three altars to Mithras found at the Mithraeum of Carrawburgh fort.

One of the three altars to Mithras found at the Mithraeum of Carrawburgh fort.

One of the altars from the Carrawburgh Mithraeum depicts the bust of Mithras or Sol.

A naked Mithra emerges from the cosmic egg surrounded by the zodiac, as always carrying a torch and a dagger.