Note 868 — Chapter XII · THE WORSHIP OF MITHRAS
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Cumont, op. cit. I. pp. 207, 208. Following the mention by Dionysius the Areopagite of a “threefold Mithras,” M. Cumont thinks that the two torch-bearing figures are representations of Mithras himself. The theory is ingenious, but not very plausible. See loc. cit. pp. 208-213.