Monumentum
Limestone torchbearer fragment from Memphis
Fragment of a limestone statuette of a torchbearer in Eastern attire, head and lower legs lost, not cross-legged, from the Mithraeum near Memphis, Egypt.
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
TNMM 842 ↔ CIMRM 96
Fragment of a statuette in limestone (H. 0.40). MMM II No. 285f and fig. 484; RRS III 140, 8.
Torchbearer in Eastern attire. The head, the legs beneath the knees and the torch are lost. Not cross-legged.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
