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The New Mithraeum Database in Britannia

Find news, articles, monuments, persons, books and videos related to the Cult of Mithras found or located in Britannia.

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  • Locus

    Pons Aelius

    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
  • Locus

    Segontium

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

    Vercovicium or Borcovicus

    Housesteads Roman Fort is the remains of an auxiliary fort on Hadrian's Wall, at Housesteads, Northumberland, England, south of Broomlee Lough.
  • Locus

    Verulamium

    Verulamium was a town in Roman Britain.
  • Locus

    Vindobala

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

    Mithraeum of Rudchester

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

    TNMM78 – CIMRM 838

  • Monumentum

    Altar of Carrawburgh by Aulus Cluentius

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

    TNMM529 – CIMRM 846

    D(eo) in(victo) M(ithrae) s(acrum) / Aul(us) Cluentius / Habitus pra(e)f(ectus) / coh(ortis) I / Batavorum / domu Ulti/n(i)a Colon(ia) / Sept(imia) Aur(elia) L(arino) / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(eri…
  • Monumentum

    Altar of Carrawburgh by Antonius Proculus

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

    TNMM527 – CIMRM 845

    Deo Inv(icto) M(ithrae) / L(ucius) Antonius / Proculus / praef(ectus) coh(ortis) I Bat(avorum) Antoninianae / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito).
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctonia de Walbrook

    The image of Mithras killing the bull, found near Walbrook, is surrounded by a Zoadiac circle.

    TNMM120 – CIMRM 810, 811

    Ulpius Silvanus / factis Arausione / emeritus leg(ionis) II aug(ustae) / votum solvit.
  • Monumentum

    Dionysus group marble of London

    Marble group of Dionysus accompanied by a Silenus on a donkey, a satyr and a menead.

    TNMM195 – CIMRM 822, 823

    Hominibus bagis bitam.
  • Monumentum

    Head of Minerva from London

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

    TNMM351

  • Monumentum

    Mithras head of Walbrook

    The Mithras's head of Walbrook probable belonged to a life-size scene of the god scarifying the bull.

    TNMM122 – CIMRM 815

  • Mithraeum

    Mithraeum of Inveresk

    The Mithraeum of Inveresk, south of Musselburgh, East Lothian, is the first found in Scotland, and the earliest securely dated example from Britain.

    TNMM331

  • Mithraeum

    Mithraeum of Caernarfon

    The Mithraeum of Caernarfon, in Walles, was built in three phases during the 3rd century, and destroyed at the end of the 4th.

    TNMM77 – CIMRM 2374

  • Monumentum

    Mithras-Sol Altar from the Carrawburgh

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

    TNMM180 – CIMRM 847, 848

    Deo ♣ invicto ♠ / Mithrae M(arcus) Sim/plicius Simplex pr(a)ef(ectus) v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito).
  • Monumentum

    Altar with openwork of Inveresk

    The altar of Sol from Inveresk, Scotland, was pierced, probably to illuminate part of the temple with a particular effect.

    TNMM459

    Soli C(aius) Cas(sius ?) Fla(vianus ?) >
  • Monumentum

    Cautes from Newcastle

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

    TNMM251 – CIMRM 849

  • 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

    Serapis head of Walbrook

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

    TNMM121 – CIMRM 818

  • 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

 
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