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Monumentum

CIMRM 20

A rough-hewn statuette (H. 0.30), found at Emir Ghasi in Lycaonia, is said to be in a Museum at Oxford, where we have not been able to trace it.
 
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TNMM 816 ↔ CIMRM 20

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A rough-hewn statuette (H. 0.30), found at Emir Ghasi in Lycaonia, is said to be in a Museum at Oxford, where we have not been able to trace it. Ramsay, Diary, 217ff with PI. XVII and 308ff; MM 229. Standing Roman soldier in helmet. Dressed in short tunic with phalerae. His r.h. rests on a representation which shows resemblance to Mithras' rock-birth. His other hand is laid on a column, on which a lion's head with the characteristics of a Gorgo. Ramsay is of the opinion that the statuette is genuine and that it represents a soldier with the Mithraic grade of Lion. From all the representations of the lion-grade known to us it is clear that this statement is highly improbable. To us the statuette does not look Mithraic at all. According to Cumont, who saw it at Oxford, it is a modern forgery.

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