Monumentum
Lamp with human dismemberment scene from Arles
This lamp, depicting a man slicing his victim into pieces with a sword, was believed to be associated with the Cult of Mithras.
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The New Mithraeum
5 Jan 2025
Updated on May 2026
TNMM 1294 ↔ CIMRM 880
Millin, Voyage Midi, 503 n. 1 mentions, that on the same find-spot of the Aion "des colonnes de granit des marbres et une lampe" were found. This lamp is also mentioned by Rebatu in his manuscript.
Through the ready intermediary of Louis F. Lachat, Keeper of the ArIes Museum, where the lamp is at the moment, we received a photograph and the data of Rebatu. The representation has nothing to do with Mithras. It is a man, cutting his victim in pieces with his sword (cf. MMM II, 404). See fig. 228.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
