CIMRM entry
CIMRM entry
832.
Marble relief (H. 0. 725 Br. 0. 35 D. 0. 225), found in Chester " built up in an adjoining hall " White Friars" in 1851 ". Chester, Grosvenor Mus.
Watkins, Roman Cheshire, (1886) p. 1921; MMM II No. 269b and fig. 308; Haverfield, Cat. Grosv. Mus. , 80 No. 170 and fig.
Standing dressed figure with a sheep-hook in his l. h.; in the r. h. a torch(? ) pointing downwards.
If the monument represents a torchbearer, then it could have belonged to the inventory of the same sanctuary. Remnants of a building with columns should have been discovered here (Cumont).
| A figure with a crook sounds more like Attis to me. - RP.
1Online here.
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