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Relief of Mithras and Cautes from Aïtodor

Small surviving fragment depicting Mithras as bull-slayer together with the torchbearer Cautes.
 
The New Mithraeum
26 May 2026

TNMM 1443 ↔ CIMRM 10D

Fragment of a marble relief (H. 0.12 Br. 0.098–0.11 D. 0.018).

Mithras as a bullkiller, only the forefeet of the bull are preserved. No dog visible. Cautes, not cross-legged, holds a flaming torch upwards.

References

IIKA 40, 1911, 17 No. 14/3 and Pl. VI, 18 (and not Pl. VI, 17 as is indicated); LeRoy Campbell in Berytus XI, 1954, 45 No. 35 who erroneously thinks it comes from Nymphaeum. See fig. 242.

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