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Monumentum

Cautes of Sidon

The Sidon sculpture includes a dog jumping between Cautes's legs.

  • RMN

  • CIMRM 80

    CIMRM 80
    Vermaseren's Corpus

 
The New Mithraeum
4 Jul 2009
Updated on Apr 2022

TNMM 159 ↔ CIMRM 80

Cautes in short chiton and long mantle, holds in his hands the torch. A dog, two legs of which have got lost, jumps towards the left.

References

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