Initiation scene from Capua Vetere

Minto, fig. 15; Leipoldt, fig. 44. See fig. 61. The mystagogus, dressed in a white tunica with red stripes, stands with one foot on the calfs of the kneeling myste, who holds his hands folded under his chin. Another person, dressed in a red cloak, walking up to him, holds in hand a red stick (sword?) towards a round object (loaf?), which lies on the ground in front of the myste.