Two limestone figures of women, possibly from the Mithraeum near Memphis, one standing cross-legged holding a branch with flowers, Egypt.
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
Two figures of women, of which it is not sure that they have been found inside the enclosure of the Mithraeum (H. 0.45 and 0.50). They are clothed in long garments and one of them is standing cross-legged, the other rests a branch over her left shoulder, ending in a bunch of flowers (MMM II No. 285k/l and figs. 488/9).
Roman Mithraeum at Kom Dafbaby, near ancient Memphis, poorly documented archaeologically but known through the remarkable group of Mithraic sculptures and reliefs recovered from the site.
Marble tauroctony relief from the Mithraeum of Memphis, depicting Mithras slaying the bull within an architectural niche framed by Cautes and Cautopates.
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.