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Monumentum

Altar for Cautopates from Ptuj

Altar for Cautopates.
Altar to Cautopates from Ptuj.Ortolf Harl 2012
 
The New Mithraeum
6 Jan 2025
Updated on May 2026

TNMM 1385 ↔ CIMRM 1505

Volute cushions (pulvini), rams’ heads in the volutes, acanthus chalice in between. Below the inscription bust of Cautopates. On the side sides profile head of Mithras with Phrygian cap above rocks.

CIL III 15354³²

Cautopa/ti sac[rum] / Cresce[n]s / Gabini Antoni / ser[vus] v[otum] s[olvit] l[ibens] m[erito].
To the sacred Cautopates, Crescens, servant of Gabinus Antonius, willingly and deservedly fulfilled his vow.

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