Cautes Borcovicus — The New Mithraeum

The New Mithraeum

16 Jun 2009

Updated on May 2023

TNMM 130 ↔ CIMRM 854

Stone relief (H. 1.00), found in the niche (1822). On a base stands Cautes in Eastern attire; cross-legged. He raises his torch with both hands. Head lost.

References

Hodgson in Archaeologia Aeliana, 1, p.290, No. 2 with fig.; Hist. North., 192, Pl. LVI, 48; MMM II No. 273c and fig. 314; Bruce, Lap. Sept., 100 No. 192. See fig. 225.

Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae

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