Standing figure relief from Salona

TNMM 1820 ↔ CIMRM 1867

R. upper part of a rectangular relief in limestone (H. 0.27 Br. 0.23 D. 0.06). The exact place of discovery is not known, but it probably comes from Salona or its immediate surroundings. Split, Archaeological Museum.

Grabičević in AJ I 1954, 38 No. 25 and fig. 8. See fig. 482.

Standing Cautes with both hands holding a burning torch upwards. Between his head and the flame of the torch the bust of Luna in crescent. Of the scene of Mithras as a bullkiller the two hands of the god with the dagger and the bull's head with part of his breast are preserved. The legs of Cautes are lost.

The figure of Cautes is highly finished, but other parts of the relief are rough and Grabičević rightly supposes that the relief was not completed. The bust of Luna was added later on.