This site uses cookies to offer you a better browsing experience.
Find out more on how we use cookies in our privacy policy.

Support The New Mithraeum The New Mithraeum is an independent, non-profit project dedicated to Mithraic studies, ancient religions and classical culture. Developed and maintained independently since 2007, the site exists without advertising, paywalls or institutional funding. If you have found value in its articles, interviews, photographs or database, please consider supporting the project with a contribution. Every contribution helps keep The New Mithraeum open, free and alive. Thank you.

Support us →

Monumentum

Statue of Cautopates pointing torch at rock from Cataio

A marble statue from the south wall of the gallery of the Castle at Cataio in the Veneto, depicting a cross-legged torchbearer in Eastern attire (Cautopates) with a sorrowful expression, standing beside a rock at which he points his torch.

The New Mithraeum

Updated on May 2026

Marble statue in the south wall of the gallery of the Castle at Cataio, Veneto.Standing torchbearer in Eastern attire; cross-legged. Next to him a rock at which he points his torch (Cautopates). Sorrowful expression.

The full article is reserved for our members.