Monumentum
Cautes statue from Mithraeum III, Carnuntum
Two sandstone fragments from Mithraeum III at Carnuntum, Pannonia Superior, belonging to a torchbearer statue probably of Cautes, comprising a Phrygian-capped head with painted eyes and a body fragment; the statues probably stood at the beginning of the benches.
Cautes statue from Mithraeum III, CarnuntumCIMRM
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
TNMM 1715 ↔ CIMRM 1688
Two fragments of a statue in sandstone, found near o, p, q.
Reichel, 189; MMM II 489f and fig. 436.
Two fragments of a torchbearer, probably of Cautes (cf. the following No. 1689).
a) Head in Phrygian cap (H. 0.19). Traces of red colour just below the cap; the eyes were indicated by painting. See fig. 436.
b) Part in Oriental dress (H. 0.80 Br. 0.50 D. 0.33) to the left. The hands and both legs up to the knees are lost.
Cumont mentions a third part viz. the l. leg from the knee to the ankle dressed in trousers. I could not trace it and I am afraid he mistook a fragment of the following No. for it.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
