Monumentum
Marble relief of a standing figure with sheep-hook from Chester, Grosvenor Museum
A marble relief found in 1851 built into the adjoining hall of White Friars at Chester (ancient Deva), now in the Grosvenor Museum, depicting a standing dressed figure with a sheep-hook in his left hand and possibly a downward-pointing torch in his right, perhaps a torchbearer belonging to the same sanctuary.
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
TNMM 1262 ↔ CIMRM 832
Marble relief, found in 1851 in Chester (ancient Deva), built up in the adjoining hall of White Friars. Chester, Grosvenor Museum.
Standing dressed figure with a sheep-hook in his left hand; in the right hand possibly a torch pointing downwards. If the monument represents a torchbearer, it could have belonged to the inventory of the same sanctuary.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
