CIMRM Supplement - 'Mithraic' altar with Apis. Stone-in-Oxney, Britain

The village church of St Mary the Virgin, in the Kent village of Stone-in-Oxney, possesses a Roman altar with the image of a bull on the front. Often supposed to be a Mithraic relief, it is in fact Apis, and so associated with the Graeco-Roman cults of Isis or Serapis.

From Apis: Monuments outside Egypt, 2, p.36:

(?) P. Lemanus (Lympne) 341. Altar, of indigenous sandstone, with a representation of a bull, originally one on each side, (?) Apis. Recovered below the chancel of the church of St. Mary's Stone-in-Oxney. Preserved in the church. The altar presumably originated Lympne (Kent). Harris, Cults. R. Br., 82f. n.6 n.7 on p.82, n.1 and n.2 on p.83; Leclant, IBIS II, no.551.