ORPHIC CRITICAL TESTIMONY 149

OTTO KERN

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CHRISTIANA (Christian. V. see also nr. 55)

SUMMARY: This testimony makes reference to an image of Orpheus placing a lyre on an altar on a sarcophagus of Ostia.

ORPHIC CRITICAL TESTIMONY 149

Orpheus, very similar to Mithras, placing the lyre on an altar of a sarcophagus of Ostia, which at present is preserved in the Lateran museum in Rome (Johannes Ficker Altchristliche Bildwerke des Lateran n. 156) Orazio Marucchi I monumenti del museo Christiano Pio-Lateranense 1910, 19 tav. 25, 2, Henri Leclercq Manuel d’archéologie Chrétienne I 1907, 127.


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