Monumentum
Cautes and Cautópates of Palazzo Imperiale
The sculptures of Cautes and Cautopates from the Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale may have been reused from an older mithraeum in Ostia.
Bases y esculturas de Cautes y Cautopates del Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale, Ostia.
CIMRM 254
Vermaseren's Corpus
CIMRM 254-2
Vermaseren's Corpus
The New Mithraeum
19 Jun 2009
Updated on Jan 2022
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Inscriptions are engraved in the bases of the statues. The frontsides have representations in relief of Cautes and Cautopates in Eastern attire. Cross-legged. They hold their torches with both hands. On the sides a jug and patera.
Upon these bases there are statues of the same torchbearers in the same atti- tudes and dresses. Traces of guilding (Visconti, 162 and Atti Acc. Pont. XV, CXXXVIII).
Visconti, 164 and PI. LM, 1,2; Benndorf-SchOne, Nos 502,504; MMM II 243k and figs. 72, 74; RRS III 139,8; Leipoldt, figs. 33,
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