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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).

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