Second Cautes of Sidon holding an axe

The New Mithraeum

4 Jul 2009

Updated on Apr 2022

TNMM 162 ↔ CIMRM 83

Torchbearer (Cautes) in a long mantle and booted stands beside a tree-stump, to which a quiver has been attached with the aid of a strap. In his r.h. he holds the torch, in his l.h. an eight-shaped double-axe.

References

de Ridder, 66f No. 53 with PI. XXVII (see fig. 32).

Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae

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