Monumentum
White marble statuette of Cautes with upraised torch and cock, Mus. Naz. Terme, Rome
White marble statuette of a cross-legged Cautes with an upraised torch and a cock at his feet, with traces of blue and red paint, found during regularisation works in the Tiber and now in the Museo Nazionale delle Terme.
CIMRM 504Vermaseren's Corpus
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
TNMM 1055 ↔ CIMRM 504
White marble statuette (H. 0.49). Mus. Naz. Terme, Inv. No. 4237.
MMM II 207 No. 23; Paribeni, Terme Diocl., No. 286. See fig. 145.
Standing Cautes with upraised torch; cross-legged; at his feet a cock. On his tunic traces of blue paint; on his cloak and trousers traces of red. Head and hands lost. In the statue two holes are still visible, in which the torch was fixed. The greater part of the torch has got lost.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
