Monumentum
Cautopates torchbearer relief from Rome
A marble relief depicting Cautopates as a standing cross-legged torchbearer in Eastern attire with his burning torch pointing downwards, found in Rome near the Via Appia and now in the Museo Nazionale delle Terme, the head and much of the torch lost.
CIMRM 637Vermaseren's Corpus
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
Marble relief, now in the Museo Nazionale delle Terme.Standing torchbearer in Eastern attire, pointing his burning torch downwards, cross-legged. The head and the greater part of the torch have got lost (Cautopates). On the back of both monuments the cloak is indicated sketchily.
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