Monumentum
Cautopates base with weathered inscription from Ptuj
White marble base from Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, bearing a weathered inscription and the remnants of a downward-pointing torch, identifying the statue as Cautopates.
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
TNMM 1598 ↔ CIMRM 1506
White marble base (H. 0.53 Br. 0.34 D. 0.24). Graz, Joanneum, Inv. No. 64. The exact findspot at Ptuj (Pettau) is not known.
AIJ I, 133 No. 290 with fig.
The weathered base has an inscription (No. 1507). On it a statue of which only the remnants of a torch pointing downwards (Cautopates) are preserved.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
