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Monumentum

Altar to Cautopates by Cresces from Ptuj

White marble altar from Mithraeum I at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, decorated with a bust of Cautopates, two ram heads flanking a palm, and lateral representations of Mithras’ rock-birth.
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The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
Updated on Sept 2026
White marble altar (H. 0.90 Br. 0.37 D. 0.28), found near 9.Gurlitt in MCC 93f and figs. 5–6; Abramić, 169 No. 234; Ferri, Arti Dan., 200 and fig. 218; AIJ I, 138 No. 296 and fig. See fig. 383.Below the inscription the dressed bust of Cautopates in a long hairdress. In the upper part a palm between two ram’s heads. On either side a bust of Mithras in Phrygian cap above a rock (rock-birth).CIMRM 1505CIL III 15354³².L.H. 0.025-0.04.Cautopa/ti sac(rum) / Cresces / Gabini Antoni / ser(vus) v(otum) s(otvit) l(ibens) m(erito).

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