Monumentum
Torchbearer statues from Lepcis Magna
Fragmentary remains of statues identified as representations of the Mithraic torchbearers.
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
TNMM 2122 ↔ CIMRM 109b
Die (0.54 × 0.07); only the feet of the statue survive.
IRT 169 No. 667b.
Ceristius Antiochus fecit.
We certainly have to do with the remnants of statues of the torchbearers.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae