"Maybe Mithras" material from newspapers, eBay, etc.

"Seller: wear-the-past. Colour: marble. Item location: Salisbury, United Kingdom. Price: GBP 2,900.00.

"On offer is this exceptionally rare marble fragment from a Roman Mithraic Tauroctony, from the 2nd - 3rd century AD. This section has most of the main design, including Mithra's legs, the Bull, the Snake, Dog's head and scorpion. This rare piece of ancient Mithraic art is complete with the original burial encrustations from a cave that have not been cleaned. This is a 100% genuine and very ancient object, last seen after being smashed by Christains during the 4th Century AD....

"DATE: 2nd - 3rd century AD
MATERIAL: Marble
SIZE: 158mm x 126mm x 22mm
WEIGHT: 638.3g
PROVENANCE: Old German Collection, purchased in the London Art Market."

Ca. 3rd - 4th century AD.
Height: 4 1/2 in. (11.5 cm).
Inv#: 5821
$3,500

Formerly in the collection of B. Degenhart, Germany, acquired in the 1930's; Massachusetts private collection.

Advertiser ancient17 from Essex.

Advertiser felicitas.perpetua from Norwich.

Private communication from seller: "This bronze Roman head was found near Ely by a metal detectorist in the 80's, unfortunately I don't know any more than that." It is not clear what, exactly, the item is: a furniture fitting?

The remains of what is suspected to be a Roman temple have uncovered by archaeologists who had been searching for a lost 11th Century church. Archaeologists had been trying to find a Norman church on farmland in the Conwy Valley after baked remains became apparent during the hot summer of 2006. But as the dig got under way the team realised there was a much older building on the site. Researchers are trying to establish if it was a temple used by Roman soldiers. The dig, which was being filmed for a Welsh-language television series, had been to try and uncover the remains of a church but instead artefacts dating back to Roman times were unearthed. "There had been questions before the dig began because a church would be orientated east west where as this building was north south and as soon as we started to dig all we found were Roman artefacts," said Dr Iestyn Jones, presenter and archaeologist on the programme. The finds were recovered from two trenches are thought to date back to the 2nd and 4th Centuries, said Dr Jones. He said more work was needed to determine if the site was a mithraeum - a temple used by Roman soldiers. "One was found in Caernarfon in the 1960s but that was dug out and houses built on it, so whilst this find is not unique it is very unusual," he said. "It was thrilling really and we had experienced archaeologists with us who take part in digs all around the country and they were delighted too." Morgan Hopkins, a series producer and director with Trisgell Television Company, said: "I was quite certain that we would discover a Norman church in Llwydfaen but it became obvious as we were digging, and from the discoveries, that this was a Roman building. "We discovered six bronze Roman coins, countless pieces of slate and Roman nails as well as pieces of Roman pottery. The S4C series is due to be broadcast in 2014.

3rd-4th century AD. A cast bronze mount of the head of Mithras with coils of hair under a Phrygian cap; hollow to the reverse with round-section peg; mounted on a custom-made stand. Found Cambridgeshire, UK, in 2009. 51 grams, 49 mm including stand (2").

Dated to 2nd-3rd centuries AD, believed to be from the ancient city of Pessinus in Turkey (near the modern village of Ballıhisar). Labelled as "Votive silver plaque with a figure of the god Mithras", but nothing obviously Mithraic about it, and Pessinus is the home city of Attis. Height: 26 centimetres. On display: G69/dc12. Acquired 1899 with Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks collection. Catalogue: "Walters, H B, Catalogue of the Silver Plate (Greek, Etruscan And Roman) in the British Museum, London, BMP, 1921".