Monumentum
Cautopates with a hooked stick from Nida
This Cautopates from Nida carries the usual downward torch in his right hand and a hooked stick in his left.
Cautopates from NidaCIMRM
The New Mithraeum
19 Jul 2009
Updated on May 2026
TNMM 105 ↔ CIMRM 1110
Relief in sandstone (H. 0.77 Br. 0.40 D. 0.05-0.135) originally standing near t or u. Inv. No. 240.
Cautopates standing cross-legged and in Oriental dress holds the torch downwards with his r.h. In his upraised l.h. he holds a hooked stick (key?). The head is restored.
References
Habel, 195 No. 6 and PI. III, 1, 1a; Hammer, Mithriaca, Pl. XVI,5; Lajard, Rech., Pl. CIV, 1; MMM II 371d and fig. 272; Esp. Rec. Germ., 101 No. 152 and fig.; Lehner, Führer Wiesb., 57 No. 240. See fig. 285.
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
