Monumentum
Altar with torchbearers from Mithraeum I, Carnuntum
Large sandstone altar from Mithraeum I at Carnuntum, Pannonia Superior, with Cautopates cross-legged carved on the left side and Cautes walking on the right, both holding their torches with two hands; the front bears an inscription.
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
TNMM 1704 ↔ CIMRM 1670
Altar in sandstone (H. 1.10 Br. 0.55–0.71 D. 0.43). Inv. No. III, 14.
v. Sacken, 340; Arneth, 333, 2; MMM II 330e and figs. 197–199.
On the l. side Cautopates cross-legged; on the r. side Cautes walking. Both holds the torches with two hands. In the front an inscription:
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
