Monumentum
Heads of torchbearers from Rudchester
Sculpted stone heads and statue fragments belonging to Mithraic torchbearers from the nave of the Vindobala Mithraeum.
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
TNMM 2053 ↔ CIMRM 843D
Stone head of a torchbearer (H. 0.20), found in the nave alley (head B on plan). The Phrygian cap has quite gone.
Other stone head (H. 0.225) found in the nave alley (head A on plan). Gillam–MacIvor, 210 and fig. 11.
'Fragment from the limb of a statue in the round (L. 0.10 diam. 0.06)', found in the narthex. It is in the same stone as the head.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
