Monumentum
Limestone statuette of a torchbearer from Memphis
Limestone statue of a figure in Eastern attire and Phrygian cap, probably a Cautes torchbearer, from the Mithraeum near Memphis, Egypt.
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
TNMM 841 ↔ CIMRM 95
Statue in limestone (H. 0.75). MMM II No. 285e with fig. 485; RRS III 140, 9.
On a base a person in Eastern attire and Phrygian cap. He holds his left arm down, the right, however, probably raised (Cautes).
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae