Naked figure from Mérida
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A naked youth, the upper part of whose body is covered only by a small shoulder-cape, is standing beside a tree-trunk, before which a sitting lion is represented. They god extends his r. arm; from a fragment of the other arm it appears, that he holds a torch with his left. Parts of both arms and the r. calf are lost (torchbearer).
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Escultura que representa a un personaje mitraico, posiblemente uno de los Dadophoros que acompañaba a Mithra.
Data
- Location
Casa del Mitreo de Mérida, Emerita Augusta, Lusitania (Hispania) Cerro de San Albín, Mérida (Spain) - Current location
Museo Nacional de Arte Romano [CE00651] Mérida (Spain) - Type
- Labels
- Dimensions H. 185 W. 48 D. cm
- Dating 1st-2nd century
- Discovery date 1913
- Material Marble
- Canonical URI
mithraeum.eu/monument/243
- CIMRM 775
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- Mithraeum Casa del Mitreo de Mérida
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- Monumentum Isis de Mérida
- Monumentum Aesculapius of Merida
- Monumentum Altar by Caius Aemilius Superaius of Merida
- Monumentum Altar from Mérida 'pro salute'
- Monumentum Oceaunus of Mérida
- Monumentum Venus of Mérida small sculpture
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