Monumentum
Altar with Cautopates bust and ram heads from Mithraeum I, Ptuj
White marble altar from Mithraeum I at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, decorated below the inscription with the dressed bust of Cautopates, a palm between two ram's heads above, and busts of Mithras on both lateral faces.
Altar with Cautopates bust and ram heads from Mithraeum I, PtujCIMRM
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
TNMM 1597 ↔ CIMRM 1504
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).
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
