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Monumentum

Cautes head and Luna from Sarmizegetusa

Bluish marble fragment from the Mithraeum at Sarmizegetusa, Dacia, preserving the right upper corner with the head of Cautes and his upraised torch, above which the bust of Luna.
 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
Fragment in bluish marble (H. 0.085–0.10 Br. 0.062–0.079 D. 0.02).Kiraly, 37 No. 105. See fig. 576.In the r. upper corner the head of Cautes and his l. arm with upraised torch. Above it the bust of Luna.

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