Naked Mithraic figure from Mérida

Marble statue (H. 1.20), found in 1913. Mus. Merida, Inv. No. 577.Melida in BAH 1914, 452 No. 10 and Pl. VI; Cat. Badajoz, No. 1087; Paris in RA (S. 4) XXIV, 1914, 5 No. 5 and fig. 3; Liañez, Mer., 195f; Pidal, Hist. Esp., 440, fig. 249; Garcia y Bellido, Culto, fig. 10. See fig. 209.A naked youth, the upper part of whose body is covered only by a small shoulder-cape, is standing beside a tree-trunk, before which a sitting lion is represented.The god extends his r. arm; from a fragment of the other arm it appears, that he holds a torch with his left. Parts of both arms and the r. calf are lost (torchbearer)…