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The torchbearers are at work. Expect the occasional flicker while we tend the grotto.

Monumentum

CIMRM 1823

This statuette of Cautopates from Intercisa shows the torchbearer holding a burning torch and a pelta at his side.

 

 
The New Mithraeum
15 May 2026

TNMM 1411 ↔ CIMRM 1823

Marble statue (H. 0.47) found in the vineyard of J. Nyuli. Budapest, National Museum (Inv. No. 30/1910, 1).

Cautopates in Oriental dress and in a high Phrygian cap standing on a base, not cross-legged, in his r.h. a burning torch; his l.h. was not completely finished by the sculptor. A pelta is visible at his l. side.

References

Jelentés, 1910, 38; Barkóczi, Intercisa, 330 No. 394 and Pl. LXXXIX, 3. See fig. 472.

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