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Headless statue of Arimanius, the devil who fought Mithras, shown with a lion's head, wings and a snake around his middle and holding the keys of his kingdom, Volusius Irenaus dedicated this, Yorkshire Museum, York
Headless statue of Arimanius, the devil who fought Mithras, shown with a lion's head, wings and a snake around his middle and holding the keys of his kingdom, Volusius Irenaus dedicated this, Yorkshire Museum, York

CIMRM 833-834

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

Hübner in Jahrbuch des Vereins von Altertumsfreunden im Rheinlande7 LVIII, 1876, 147ff and Pl. VIII, 1 (Online here); 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].

www.tertullian.org/rpearse/mithras/display.php?page=cimrm833

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Headless statue of Arimanius, the devil who fought Mithras, shown with a lion's head, wings and a snake around his middle and holding the keys of his kingdom, Volusius Irenaus dedicated this, Yorkshire Museum, York

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