London Mithraeum
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Scott Vanderbilt Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Scott Vanderbilt Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Aug 30, 2023 05:38 PM
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History
A temple sacred to Mithras in Londinium that was discovered in 1954. The visible remains of the temple do not sit on the original site, but have been reassembled at Temple Court, Queen Victoria Street, London.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/17649950
51.5124889486, -0.0911185135511
- Relocated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of reassembled remains of Temple of Mithras (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Representative Locations:
- Centerpoint of the ancient site (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- London Mithraeum located at Londinium/Augusta (unspecified date range)
- London Mithraeum located near Walbrook (stream) (AD 43 - AD 410)
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Pleiades
Scott Vanderbilt, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'London Mithraeum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/17649950> [accessed: 22 January 2025]
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