Monumentum
Altar with Cautes bust from Mithraeum I, Ptuj
White marble votive altar from Mithraeum I at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, distinguished by a dressed bust of Cautes emerging from foliage below the inscription — an unusual iconographic feature for an altar.
Altar with Cautes bust from Mithraeum I, PtujCIMRM
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
TNMM 1591 ↔ CIMRM 1498
Votive altar in white marble (H. 0.95 Br. 0.36 D. 0.36), found near 7.
Gurlitt in MCC 93 and fig. 3; Abramić, 168f No. 233 and fig. 120; Časopis 1933, 138 and figs. 47–48; Jahrb. f. Alterk., 1913, Taf. XXIII, 2; Mostra, 701 No. 36; AIJ I, 138 No. 295 with fig.
On the front, below the inscription, the dressed bust of Cautes emerges from some leaves. In the upper part volutes in which ram's heads and between which is a palm-branch.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
