Statuette from Emir Ghasi

A rough-hewn statuette (H. 0.30), found at Emir Ghasi in Lycaonia, is said to be in a Museum at Oxford, where it has not been traced. Ramsay, Diary, 217ff with Pl. 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 represents a soldier with the Mithraic grade of Lion. From all the representations of the lion-grade known to us…