CIMRM 780-781 - Mercury. Merida, Spain.

From: Flickr. By Peter Stewart. 2009. Dated by dedicatory inscription on the tortoise-shell lyre to AD 155.

Statue of Mercury. From the Merida Mithraeum.

CIMRM entry

780.
Marble statue (H. 1.51), found in the Plaza de Toros in 1913. Mus. Merida, Inv. No. 580.
Paris in AA 1914, 377f and fig. 52; RA XXIV ,1914, 9f No. 9 and fig. 7; Melida in BAH 1914, 453 No. 11 and Pl. VII; Cat. Badajoz, No. 1088; Legge in Proc. Soc. Bibl. Arch. XXXVII, 1915, Pl. XIX, 5; Lianez, 190f No. 580 and fig. 68; Leipoldt, XIII and fig. 25; Pidal, Hist. Esp. II, 431 and figs. 231-232; Garcia y Bellido, Culto, fig. 13. See fig. 213.
A naked Mercurius with winged feet, sits on a large boulder, on which a cloth lies spread out. A part of his l. leg is lost. Under his l.h;, which rests on the rock, a lyre, on which an inscription.
781.
Ann(o) col(oniae) CLXXX / invicto deo Mithrae / sacr(um) / G(aius) Accius Hedychrus / pater / a(nimo) l(ibente) p(osuit).
155 A.D.