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
TNMM 1231 ↔ CIMRM 762
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.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
