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Cautes and Cautopates statues from Budapest

Pair of limestone torchbearer statues from Aquincum representing Cautes and Cautopates; Cautes preserves a pelta in his left hand.
 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
Updated on Aug 2026
Two statues of Cautes and Cautopates in limestone (H. 0.80 and H. 0.705). Found in Aquincum in 1941. National Museum Budapest (Inv. No. 45.4.2–3).Nagy in BpR XIII, 1943, 360ff and figs. 26–27; Szilágyi, Pl. L; BpTört. II, Pl. LXV, 1–2. See figs. 461a–b.Cautes holds a pelta in his l.h.

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