Monumentum
Limestone base from Leptis Magna
Second limestone base from the Forum Vetus at Leptis Magna bearing the inscription of Aristius Antiochus, with fragments of a torchbearer figure in Eastern attire.
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
From the Forum Vetus "dalla parte della Basilica scavata da Guidi" comes a second base of the same limestone and with the same inscription (L.H. 0.028). On it two feet, shod in the same way. From other fragments it appears to be a representation of a person in Eastern attire, certainly a torchbearer. Caputo in Archeologia Classica I, 1949, 205ff and Pl. LVI, 1.Aristius Antiochus fec(it).
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