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CIMRM 833-834

833. Statue in sandstone (H. 0.61), found in York (1875). Yorkshire, Philosophical Society.

Hübner in JVA [Jahrbuch des Vereins von Altertumsfreunden im Rheinlande] LVIII, 1876, 147ff and Pl. VIII, 1; MMM II 392 No. 271 and fig. 310.

On a base a standing, naked figure, dressed in a fringed loin-cloth, which is held together by a snakelike belt. In his hanging l.h. two keys, whereas the other, which is broken off as far as the elbow, must have held a sceptre, part of which is still visible on the edge of the stone, together with an undefinable object (thunderbolt?), half of which is preserved on the fringes. To his shoulders two wings are attached. Head lost. On the base, in a tabula ansata, an inscription:

834. MMM II No. 474. D(eo) ... / Vol(usii) Ire[naeus,et] / Arimaniu[s posuerunt].

Source: Vermaseren, M.J. (1956). Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae, vol. II. Den Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, p. 290.
Caution: Vermaseren's amendations to the inscription are not necessarily correct. There are (at least) two other readings.
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NOTE: Title at Flickr is photographer's personal (and untenable) interpretation of a figure whose name and function are actually unknown.
The photo is that of the leontocephaline (lion-headed figure) of the Mithraic Mysteries (CIMRM 833, see above), with wings, a snake around his waist, and holding keys. Located at the Yorkshire Museum, York.

Author Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany

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