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Stone statuette of Cautopates from Bordeaux

Standing stone statuette of Cautopates, the downward-torch bearer, found at Bordeaux and kept in the city’s museum of antiquities (musée d’Aquitaine ?).
 
The New Mithraeum
10 Jan 2026
Stone statuette (H. 0.36 Br. 0.17 D. 0.13). Found at Bordeaux and kept there in the Mus. Ant. Esp. Rec. Gaule, II, 139 No. 1081 with fig. Standing torchbearer, cross-legged. He is dressed in a tunic, anaxyrides and cloak, fastened on his r. shoulder. He points the torch downwards with both hands (Cautopates).

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