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Cautes relief from Viminacium

Right portion of a limestone Cautes relief from Kostolac, ancient Viminacium in Moesia Superior, depicting Cautes standing on an elevation in Oriental dress — not cross-legged — with a semicircle above him, probably Sol's nimbus.
 
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27 May 2026

TNMM 2011 ↔ CIMRM 2218

R. part of a relief in limestone (H. 0.815 Br. 0.315 D. 0.23) from Kostolac. In 1903 it was at Pančevo in the brewery of I. Weifert.

Premerstein-Vulić in JOAI VI, 1903 (Beibl.), 22 and fig. 2.

Cautes in Oriental dress standing on an elevation; not cross-legged. Above him in a kind of medallion a bust of a person in beard and nimbus (Sol?). Part of the grotto's border is preserved.

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