Cautes and Cautópates of Palazzo Imperiale
TNMM 143 ↔ CIMRM 254 & 255
Two marble statues (H. 0.42). Roma, Mus. Lateran, Nos. 968 and 958.
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).
CIMRM 255
CIL XIV 58, 59; MMM II No. 133.
On the front-side:
C. Caelius / Ermeros / ant/istes huius lo/ci fecit sua / pec(unia).
On the left side:
Positi XV k(alendas) / febrarias / Q. Iunio Rus/tico / L. Plaut[io] / Aquilin[o] / co[(n)s(ulibus)].
162 A.D. As the Mithraeum is probably contemporaneous with the therms of Septimius Severus, these monuments can origin from an older Mithraeum and reused here.
C. Caelius Ermeros also dedicated an altar in the Mitreo delle Pareti dipinte (No. 269).
CIL XIV 58, 59
Posit[a]e XV k[alendas] / febr[u]arias / Q[uinto] Iunio Rus/tico / L[ucio] Plaut[io] / Aquilin[o] / co[[n]s[ulibus]].
Erected on the fifteenth day before the calendas of February, Quintus Iunius Rusticus and Lucius Plautius Aquilinus being consuls.
References
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, 34; Anderson, No. 24141 (see our fig. 76); Paschetto, Ostia, 392 fig. 118; Becatti, Mitrei Ostia, 54 and PI. XXXV.
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
