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Monumentum

Relief of Cautopates from Bonna

Limestone relief fragment showing Cautopates beside traces of a tauroctony scene.

The New Mithraeum

28 May 2026

Fragment of a relief in limestone (H. 0.18).Hettner, Katalog 81 No. 220; MMM II 386 No. 262; Esp. Rec. Gaule VIII, 220 No. 6219.Standing Cautopates with torch downwards. On the right remnants of another representation, probably Mithras as a bullkiller.Kraft mentions that all these monuments come from "ein ausgemauertes Grab." An urn with ash was found in it. Cumont justly remarks that here was a speleum of which perhaps only a small part was excavated.

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