Monumentum
Statue of a standing torchbearer from Chester (now lost)
A small stone statue found at Chester (ancient Deva) in 1853 built into a cellar wall in White Friars, still seen by Stukeley in 1725 but now lost, depicting a standing torchbearer in Eastern attire and cross-legged, holding a torch downwards with both hands.
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
TNMM 1260 ↔ CIMRM 830
Small stone statue, found at Chester (ancient Deva) in 1853, built into a cellar wall in White Friars. Now lost.
Standing torchbearer in Eastern attire and cross-legged. With both hands he holds a torch downwards.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
