Monumentum
Bronze torchbearer from Catunele de Motru
Small bronze statuette in Phrygian cap from Catunele de Motru, Dacia, possibly a torchbearer; the Mithraic attribution is not certain as no torch survives.
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
TNMM 2436 ↔ CIMRM 2158
Bărcăcilă in Arh. Olt. 1934, 34 No. 2c mentions a standing bronze person in Phrygian cap (H. 0.043) found in the village of Catunele de Motru (distr. Mehedinți). It may be a torchbearer, but no reliable information is available. The torch, however, seems to have got lost.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
